What's New in ITASCA Software 9.4

This webinar showcased the latest updates in ITASCA Software v9.4.

New features include:

Applies to FLAC3D, FLAC2D, 3DEC, MassFlow, PFC3D, and PFC2D:

• New UI object tree that:
  • Provides quick and easy access to information about model objects, model files, and program settings
  • Permits quick plotting of objects (zones, structural elements, walls), histories, and charts
  • Permits quick listing of information in the Console
  • Provides quick access to related help topics
  • Permits streamlined watch information for selected parameters

• Export all (or only visible) 1D structural element (e.g., cables, rock bolts, beams, piles) data to tables and plot as charts or export to a CSV file
• Many updates of documentation, including links to YouTube videos
• Improvement on cut-plane where individual plot items can select a cut plane to sync to from a drop-down list
• Add geometry command to create geometry edges from txt or csv file.
  Add hide null gridpoint option
• Put zone joints to the results dialog
• Improved Rapid Tool to calculate Hoek-Brown material properties

Applies to FLAC3D and FLAC2D:

• CASM (Clay and Sand Model) constitutive model for assessing the static liquefaction potential of tailings dams from a relatively small set of material parameters, most of which can be calibrated from standard laboratory tests

Applies to FLAC3D:

• Plot Moment-Thrust and Shear-Thrust diagrams for structural elements

Applies to FLAC2D:

• Dynamic axisymmetric analysis
• Plot 2D contour isolines and include labels
• Plot grid points as labels or contoured in 2D
• Trigon (triangular) option added to the Voronoi Wizard
• Create lines in Sketch from an imported table of points
• Seven new examples and one updated example:
  • Axisymmetric Model of an Advancing Lined Shaft
  • Consolidation of an Embankment using Soft Soil
  • Consolidation of an Embankment using Mohr-Coulomb
  • Lined Tunnel in Saturated Ground
  • Saturation and Draining of a Caisson
  • Capillary Infiltration in a Dry Caisson
  • Deformation caused by filling of a Caisson
  • Updated dynamic analysis of a Tailings Dam to include CASM

Applies to 3DEC:

• Fluid flow in 3DEC now works for meshes imported from Griddle

Applies to MassFlow:

• Massive simulation speedup in MassFlow when you have lots of draw points and lots of markers

Applied to PFC:

• Add bonded-particle modeling document.

New features and improvements since 9.3:

• FLAC3D/FLAC2D:
  • Sketch: add an option to combine DFN
  • Extruder page accepts drops
  • Enable MPI creep with cluster option
  • Cable Pull Rapid Tool update
• 3DEC:
  • Allow for more than one face group
• PFC:
  • Add Hill contact model for rigid-block to rigid-block contacts

This webinar is tailored for professionals in engineering, geosciences, and related fields who are eager to explore cutting-edge software innovations in the latest ITASCA Software and enhancing their numerical modeling work. We look forward to having you attend the event!