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Rocscience RS3 - 3D Finite Element Analysis Software
Analyzes complex 3D geotechnical models for civil and mining projects, perfect for both rock and soil. Mining: RS3 empowers engineers to model large scale underground mines, open pits, jointed rock slopes and stope sequencing. You can use different underground mining methods like room and pillar, cut and fill, and block caving to make calculated decisions.
Surface and Underground Excavation
Analyze stress, deformation, stability, and groundwater flow for surface and underground excavations. Even the most complex civil, geotechnical, and mining-based excavations are easier to analyze using RS3, trusted by engineers globally.
Shear Strength Reduction
Automate your slope stability analysis using the Shear Strength Reduction method. You can locate the critical failure point and determine the strength reduction factor of your slopes with a single click.
- Parallel 64-bit processing
- Fully optimized
- Direct or iterative solver
- Coupled stress/pore pressure using Biot theory
- 2D/3D view
- Plot contours on horizontal, vertical, or arbitrary planes
- Plot contours on boundaries
- View stress, displacement contours
- Effective stress, pore pressure contours
- Contour user-defined data
- Deformation vectors
- Groundwater discharge vectors
- Display deformations to user-defined scale
- Query and graph material, support data
- Show values directly on model
- Highlight yielded material and support elements
- Display iso-surfaces
- Data tips for any object
- Annotation and dimensioning tool kit
- Export to Excel
- Export image files
- Constant stress field
- Gravity stress field
- Stress field per material Finite Element Slope Stability
- Automated FE slope stability using shear strength reduction (SSR) method
- Define SSR include/exclude area
- Documentation including verification models and tutorials
- 3D finite element seepage analysis
- Steady state or transient
- Staged groundwater
- Material permeability functions
- Discharge sections
- Piezometric lines
- Pore pressure point set
- Coupled/uncoupled analysis
- Add water surface by location
- Add pore water pressure point set by location
- Point load
- Line load
- Distributed load
- Ponded water load
- Staged loading
- Springs
- Seismic loading
- Dynamic analysis
- Soil or rock
- Elastic or plastic
- Multiple materials
- Mohr-Coulomb, Hoek-Brown, Drucker-Prager, Generalized Hoek-Brown, Cam-Clay, Modified Cam-Clay, Discrete Functions, Mohr-Coulomb with Cap material models
- Softening hardening model
- Staged material properties
- Datum-dependent properties
- Import from RSData
- Linear isotropic, transversely isotropic, orthotropic, Duncan-Chang Hyperbolic, non-linear isotropic, custom
- User-defined material models library, including ChSoil, CySoil, Hardening Soil, and Hardening Soil with Small Strain Stiffness
- 3D tetrahedral mesh
- 4–noded or 10–noded elements
- One-click mesh generation
- Graded meshing
- Uniform meshing
- Check/Define mesh quality
- Define mesh refinement region
- Create 3D models with CAD tools
- Multiple excavations
- Interactive geometry entry
- Vertex/Object snapping
- One-click material assignment
- Import 3D .dxf, .dwg, .obj, .stl, .step, .iges, .tin, .asc, .xyz fi les
- Import from Examine
- Export planar section to RS2, Slide2
- Right-click editing shortcuts
- Interactive sidebar
- Interactive staging timeline
- Tunnel profile tool
- Define soil profile with boreholes
- Bolts
- Liners
- Beams
- Forepoles/Piles
- Staged support installation
- Bolt types—end anchored, fully bonded, cable bolts, Swellex, splitset, tiebacks
- Composite liners with interface elements
- Elastic or plastic
- Peak/Residual strength