RS2

Data Interpretation :

View stress, displacement, strength factor contours

Effective stress, pore pressure contours

Contour user-defined data

Stress/Failure trajectories, deformation vectors

Display deformations to user-defined scale

Query and graph material, support, joint data

Export to Excel

Show values directly on model

Highlight yielded material, support, joint elements

Add iso-contours

Elements & Meshing :

Triangular or quadrilateral finite elements

3 or 6–noded triangles

4 or 8–noded quadrilaterals

One-click mesh generation

Graded, uniform or radial meshing

Mapped meshing

Custom meshing

Check/Define mesh quality

Easily apply boundary conditions

Far-Field Stress :

Constant stress field

Gravity stress field

Multiple stress fields (customize per material)

Finite Element Slope Stability :

Automated FE slope stability using shear strength reduction (SSR) method

Define SSR include/exclude area

Import/Export Slide2 models

Accelerated SSR

Groundwater :

Finite element steady state or transient seepage analysis

Staged groundwater

Material permeability functions

Discharge sections

Piezometric lines

Pore pressure grids

Fully coupled consolidation

Include pore pressure for effective stress analysis

Uncoupled consolidation

Staged groundwater methods

Wick drains

Unknown boundary condition (seepage face)

Joints :

Elastic or non-linear

Mohr-Coulomb, Barton-Bandis, Hyperbolic, or material-dependent slip criterion

Natural or artifi cial joints

Pressurized joints

Staged joint properties

Statistical modeling of joint networks

Loads :

Constant or linear distributed loads

Concentrated load

Seismic load

Ponded water load

Staged loading

Springs

Dynamic

Materials :

Undrained and drained behaviour

Elastic or non-linear

Strength criteria—Mohr-Coulomb, Generalized Hoek-Brown, Cam-Clay, Modified Cam-Clay, Drucker-Prager, discrete function, anisotropic, Mohr-Coulomb with Cap, Softening/Hardening

Advanced material models—Slide2 (Power Curve, Barton-Bandis, Vertical Stress Ratio, Hyperbolic, Shear Normal, Shansep, Generalized Anisotropic), FLAC (CY Soil, CH Soil), Plaxis (Hardening Soil, HS Small, Soft Soil, Soft Soil Creep), Dafalias- Manzari, Bounding Surface Plasticity, Mohr-Coulomb with Cap, BBM (Basic Barcelona), and NorSand

Staged material properties

Datum-dependent properties

Isotropic, transversely isotropic, orthotropic elastic models

Import from RocData

Modelling :

Interactive geometry entry

Intuitive workfl ow tabs

Boundaries—external, material, excavation, stage, joint, piezo, structural interface

Grid/Vertex/Object snapping

Sequential staging of excavation and support (up to 300 stages)

Plane strain or axisymmetric analysis

One-click material assignment

Import/Export in .dxf fi les

Unlimited undo/redo

Right-click editing shortcuts

Tunnel Wizard

Property Viewer

Visibility Tree

Probabilistic Analysis :

Monte Carlo, Latin Hypercube, Point Estimate methods

Random variables—materials, joint properties, field stress

Contour/Error plots of statistical output

Support :

Staged support installation

Bolt types – end anchored, fully bonded, cable bolts, Swellex, splitset, tiebacks

Liner types—beam, reinforced concrete, geotextile, cable truss

Composite liners

Reinforcement database

Timoshenko or Bernoulli beam models

Staged liner properties

Elastic or non-linear

Peak/Residual strength

Interactive support capacity plots (thrust/moment, thrust/shear) for reinforced concrete liners (includes CSA, ACI, EC2 codes)