Examples Index

Indexed Here

FLAC3D Examples • PFC Examples • 3DEC Examples • Coupling Examples

Example Types

The examples enumerated here fall into three different categories.

• Tutorials are intended to be the first stop for the novice user; they illustrate program features and principles.
• Verification Problems are used to show the validity of program results against the underlying theory; they are not necessarily “real-world” examples.
• Example Applications are full-scale demonstrations of some of the possible uses of the codes.

FLAC3D Examples

For specific details of the FLAC3D model components (e.g., zones and structural elements), see FLAC3D Commands and FISH.

• Tutorials
  • Tutorial: Quick Start
  • Tutorial: Illustrative Model — Mechanics of Using FLAC3D
  • Tutorial: Working with FISH
• Verification Problems
  • Cylindrical Hole in an Infinite Mohr-Coulomb Material
  • Cylindrical Hole in an Infinite Hoek-Brown Medium
  • Rough Strip Footing on a Cohesive Frictionless Material
  • Smooth Circular Footing on an Associated Mohr-Coulomb Material
  • Smooth Square Footing on a Cohesive Frictionless Material
  • Uniaxial Compressive Strength of a Jointed Material Sample
  • Drained and Undrained Triaxial Compression Test on a Cam-Clay Sample
  • Lined Circular Tunnel in an Elastic Medium with Anisotropic Stresses
  • Simple Slope in Hoek-Brown Material
• Example Applications
  • Influence of Slope Curvature on Stability
  • Pillar Loads at Intersecting Tunnels
  • Excavation in a Saturated Soil
  • Grid Generation for Intersecting Tunnels
  • Pressurized Cylindrical Cavern
  • Prediction of Borehole Closure in a Salt Formation
  • Axial and Lateral Loading of a Concrete Pile
  • Undrained Cylindrical Cavity Expansion in a Cam-Clay Medium
  • Simulation of Pull-Tests for Fully Bonded Rock Reinforcement
  • Wheel Load over a Buried Pipe
  • Embankment Loading on a Cam-Clay Foundation
  • Impermeable Concrete Caisson Wall with Pretensioned Tiebacks
  • Dewatered Construction of a Braced Excavation
  • Installation of a Triple-Anchored Excavation Wall
  • Reinforced Tunnel Excavation
  • Subsidence above Horizontal Cut
  • Sleeved Triaxial Test of a Bonded Material

PFC Examples

For specific details of the PFC model components (e.g., balls, clumps, walls, and contacts), see PFC Model Objects.

• Tutorials
  • Balls in a Box
  • Clumps in a Box
  • Attributes and Properties
  • Using the CMAT
  • Generating a Bonded Assembly
  • Replicating a Particle Size Distribution
  • Inclusions in a Matrix
  • Hopper Discharge
  • Using FISH Callbacks
  • Table Tennis
  • Shallow Foundation
  • Slip on a Fault
  • Creation of a Synthetic Rock Mass (SRM) Specimen
• Verification Problems
  • Measure Logic
  • Strength of a Face-Centered Cubic Array of Spheres
  • Tip-Loaded Cantilever Beam
  • Linear Contact Model: Calibrating the Normal Critical Damping Ratio
  • Hertz Contact Model: Complex Loading Paths
  • Wave Propagation in Particle Assemblies
  • Rolling Resistance Linear Contact Model: Single Ball on a Flat Surface
  • Rolling Resistance Linear Contact Model: Repose Angle
  • Burger’s Contact Model: Stress Relaxation
  • Sliding Wedge
• Example Applications
  • Hopper Flow
  • Probing a Granular Specimen
  • Ribbon Blender
  • Fragmentation Analysis during a Uniaxial Compression with Crack Tracking Using Fractures
  • DFN Generation, Analysis, and Simplification
  • Rock Testing
  • Rigid Block Model of Flying Buttresses
  • Rigid Block Model of a Rockslide
  • Genesis and Testing of a Soft-Bonded Material
  • Simple Rigid Block Bonded-Block Modeling (BBM)
  • Rigid Block Model of Tunnel Excavation

3DEC Examples

• Tutorials
  • Tutorial: Quick Start
• Verification Problems
  • Sliding Wedge
  • Falling Wedge
  • Sliding and Toppling Blocks
  • Block with a Slipping Crack under Cyclic Loading
  • Cylindrical Hole in an Infinite Elastic Medium
  • Cylindrical Hole in an Infinite Mohr-Coulomb Medium
  • Rough Square Footing on a Cohesive Frictionless Material
  • Hydraulic Fracture
  • Excavation in a Saturated Soil
  • Lined Circular Tunnel in an Elastic Medium with Anisotropic Stresses
• Example Applications
  • Stability of an Open Pit in a Jointed Rock Mass
  • Assessment of Fault Slip Potential from Sill Pillar Mining
  • Highway Loading of an Arch Bridge
  • Hydraulic Fracture with DFN
  • Excavation in a Saturated Soil
  • Flying Buttress
  • Flemish Wall
  • Discrete Fracture Network (Advanced)
  • Finite Element Dam
  • Open Pit with Octree Blocking
  • Open Pit with Face Blocks
  • Supported Tunnel
  • UCS Test with Fragmentation
  • UCS Test with Voronoi Blocks
  • Lined Circular Tunnel in an Elastic Medium with Anisotropic Stresses
  • Example: Ring Support of a Jointed Tunnel
  • Tutorial: Braced Support of a Vertical Excavation
  • Cable-Reinforced Beam
  • Advancing Lined Tunnel (Slip at Liner-Soil Interface)
  • Demonstration of Large-Strain Sliding
  • Simple Test of Liner-Block Interface Behavior
  • Liner-Reinforced Beam
  • Example: Pull-Test for a Grouted Cable Anchor
  • Example: Shear and tension test for rockbolt crossing a joint

PFC-FLAC3D Coupling Examples

For specific details of the PFC-FLAC3D coupling schemes, see Coupling PFC and FLAC3D.

• PFC-FLAC3D Coupling Tutorials
• Example Applications
  • Punch Indentation of a Bonded Material
  • Sleeved Triaxial Test of a Bonded Material
• Verification Problems
  • Wave Propagation in a Coupled PFC-FLAC3D model
  • Gravity Settlement in a Coupled PFC-FLAC3D model

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