Influence of former near-surface ore mining on a road construction project
The road construction department of the district of Steinfurt, a district in the north of the coal mining area in the Ruhr region, is planning the construction of the new road K 24n. The road axis runs through an area partly affected by old mining operations.
The Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB) is planning to extend the short-lived radioactive waste repository with five 275 meters long and one 240 meter long vault. Since the extension could lead to damage on the existing facility, Itasca designed a temporary support system to prevent loose rock.
The aim of this project was to develop and test a methodology for rock characterization that would help in the decision-making process for an adequate location of the nuclear waste canister burying. View more >>
Software Updates
PFC Suite 7.0 pre-releaseis available! Discover all the new capabilities . Among them:
Rigid Block Enhancements (cut during cycling, simplify model creation, …)
Generalized Clump Logic (model concave shapes,…)
Inlet logic added to simplify model generation
Multi-threaded FISH
New Contact Models such as adhesive contact models
The Itasca Constitutive Model for Advanced Strain Softening (IMASS) has been developed to represent the rock mass response to excavation-induced stress changes. Please contact your local agent for a quote.
New software agent in Spain
We are pleased to inform you that we have a new software agent in Spain: Solve Geomecanica S.L. They handle any request related to Itasca software.
Events
ICGmbH carried out two virtual ITASCA Information Days at the beginning of March. The event usually hosted at the Technical University of Freiberg couldn’t take place last year due to the pandemic situation, so we decided to hold a virtual event this year. The event was very well received by our customers and colleagues and it attracted more than 40 attendees.
ICGmbH presented the ongoing developments, new features and future plans of our software. We are looking forward to the next event and hope that we will be able to organize it as a physical event! We are looking forward to the next event and hope that we will be able to organize it as a physical event!
Past webinar
"Evaluation of impacts of lahars on structures using DEM numerical modeling" held by Rime Chehade, on January 19th, 2021.
Click on the picture to watch the recording.
