RocSlope3

3D Block Stability Risk Assessment Software for Rock Slopes

Assesses the factors of safety of thousands of blocks in highly jointed rock masses, where failures are structurally controlled.

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RocSlope3

3D Block Stability Risk Assessment Software for Rock Slopes

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Model 3D Geological Structures

Model structurally controlled failures in 3D slope geometries such as benches, highway cuts, and entire open pits. Define joints as measured joints, synthetically sampled joint sets, or discrete surfaces, specified by orientation and location.

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Model 3D Geological Structures

Model structurally controlled failures in 3D slope geometries such as benches, highway cuts, and entire open pits. Define joints as measured joints, synthetically sampled joint sets, or discrete surfaces, specified by orientation and location.

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Block Stability Analysis

Identify all valid blocks formed by joint intersections. Use the limit equilibrium method to determine each block's stability, considering weight, shear strength, water pressure, loading, and supports.

Predict failure locations and magnitudes and create heat maps to show areas with the lowest factors of safety, largest failure volumes and depths, and greatest support needs.

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Block Stability Analysis

Identify all valid blocks formed by joint intersections. Use the limit equilibrium method to determine each block's stability, considering weight, shear strength, water pressure, loading, and supports.

Predict failure locations and magnitudes and create heat maps to show areas with the lowest factors of safety, largest failure volumes and depths, and greatest support needs.

Probabilistic Analysis

Perform probabilistic analysis to model the variability in rock unit weights, joint shear strengths, and water pressure parameters, and obtain location-specific failure probabilities.

Generate histograms, cumulative plots, and scatter plots, and fit distributions and regression lines through the data for detailed analysis.

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Probabilistic Analysis

Perform probabilistic analysis to model the variability in rock unit weights, joint shear strengths, and water pressure parameters, and obtain location-specific failure probabilities.

Generate histograms, cumulative plots, and scatter plots, and fit distributions and regression lines through the data for detailed analysis.

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RocSlope3 Across Applications

  • Open Pit Mining
  • Transportation

Open Pit Mining

Assess and locate large and small-scale failures across the benches of an open pit as part of optimal pit design, safety planning, and risk mitigation during design and operational stages.

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Transportation

Conduct geological hazard assessment of rock slopes adjacent to roads, highways, railways, bridges, or other overlying civil infrastructure. Model slope stabilization measures, including rock reinforcements and drainage, for infrastructure protection.

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RocSlope3 Seamlessly Integrates With

  • Dips
  • SWedge
  • Slide3
  • RS3
  • ShapeMetriX

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Import joint orientations from Dips. If data is measured along boreholes or scanlines, import the orientation and location of individual planes. If joint sets exist, set statistics of mean dip and dip direction and Fisher K can be used define synthetic joint set orientation distributions.

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Import geometry, properties, and joints from SWedge to fully define your model.

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Import geometry, material properties, groundwater conditions, bolts, and search limits directly from Slide3. Add joints to complete your model.

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Import geometry, material properties, joints and joint properties, groundwater conditions, and bolts directly from RS3 to fully define your model. Discrete fracture networks created in RS3 can be directly imported.

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Quickly go from field data to 3D block stability assessment. Directly import slope geometry and measured joint data from ShapeMetrix (.3grs and .3gdps).

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The Latest Features

  • Import Bolts From .csv

    Easily import an unlimited number of bolts from .csv or .txt files, detailing bolt locations, orientations, lengths, and attributes. Ideal for complex geometries like overhangs and near-vertical slopes, this feature streamlines targeting specific failure volumes for efficient bolt application.

  • Block Limits

    Focus on critical regions of your model by adding volumetric limits with inclusion and/or exclusion zones for block computations along specific slope portions.

  • Key Block Analysis

    Identify key blocks controlling potential large-scale failures and simulate the successive unraveling of the slope as key blocks fail and detach.

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Explore our Learning Resources and User Guides, designed to help you excel with all of your geotechnical projects, whether you are a practicing engineer, an academic or a student.
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  • One User Device
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  • 5 User Devices Per Seat
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