Live in-person introductory training course. This four-day course provides guidance in the use of the Itasca codes PFC2D and PFC3D to simulate the mechanical behavior of granular and solid materials.
In 3DEC, a discontinuous medium is represented as an assemblage of discrete blocks. Boundaries between blocks are treated as discontinuities along which large displacements and rotations between blocks are allowed. Individual blocks can behave as deformable material, in which case the block is subdivided into a mesh of finite difference elements (i.e., continuous assemblages of zones).
TYPE
TOOL
APPLICATION
MAIN ADVANTAGE
DESCRIPTION
Structured
Primitives Commands & FISH
VRML to Block converter EXE
Interactive BlockRanger
Unstructured
Interactive Griddle (NEW)