Estimating settlements due to a complex excavation In the context of the Greater Paris works, the VINCI-SPIE group builds a future metro station underneath the CNIT centre in Paris, for the westward extension of RER E (EOLE). The West Pre-Station is particularly complex due to its excavation phasing and the presence of many surrounding structures, including among others the T2 tramway line and several foundations. Learn more on this project.
Stability Design of Open Pit Walls Using 3D Modelling Approach
The open pit mine is part of a Greenfield exploration project. Itasca Consultants GmbH in cooperation with Itasca Chile were contracted to develop a stability design of the pit. The analysis has been performed using Itasca’s three-dimensional distinct element code, 3DEC (Itasca, 2016). Learn more on this project.
Software Updates
Upcoming release of Griddle 2.0 !
The pre-release version is already available on our website.
Rhino 7.0 is officially released!
We invite you to contact your local agent to purchase a Rhino 7.0 license.
Upcoming PFC 7.0 release!
The PFC 7 pre-release and a web page detailing “What’s New in PFC 7” are coming very soon.
Here are some new features :
Generalized clump logic providing ability to model concave rigid-block shapes
Inlet logic to generate model components at a specified flow-rate during cycling
Stress installation schemes for rigid-blocks and ball packings
New constitutive models as for example Lennard-Jones potential and Dipole interaction contact models
And much more…
Contact your local agent for a quote!
Upcoming Webinar
Coming soon! Our next webinar will be held by Rime Chehade, University of Clermont-Ferrand on January 19th at 4:00PM CET.
She will be presenting her work on “Evaluation of impacts of lahars on structures using DEM numerical modelling”.
Rime Chehade is currently in the 3rd year of her PhD thesis at Institut Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand (France), in collaboration with Itasca Consultants and with The Magmas and Volcanoes Laboratory (LMV).
Itasca Consulting Group (Minneapolis) is planning to conduct a series of remote introductory courses early 2021. More information, dates, and course details are available on our website: https://www.itascainternational.com/learning/training
Register by January 31, 2021 and save $300!
Publications
Doolaeghe, D., Davy, P., Hyman, J. D., & Darcel, C. (2020). Graph-based flow modeling approach adapted to multiscale discrete-fracture-network models. Physical review E, 102(5), 053312. Paper available on-line.
Sjöberg, J. (2020) "Solving rock mechanics issues through modelling: then, now, and in the future?", Underground Mining Technology 2020.Paper available on-line.
