Product Overview
RS3
Surface & Underground Excavation
Designed to analyze stress, deformation, stability, and groundwater flow of surface and underground excavations. Simplify even the most complex civil, geotechnical and mining based excavations using powerful 3D finite element analysis trusted by engineers globally.
Groundwater Seepage
The solution for seepage analysis is RS3’s powerful groundwater analysis tool, capable of analyzing groundwater flow through dams, embankments, slopes, tunnels and excavations.
Shear Strength Reduction
Automate your slope stability analysis using Shear Strength Reduction method. With a single mouse click, locate the critical failure point and determine the strength reduction factor of your slopes.
Specifications
Compute :
Parallel 64-bit processing
Fully optimized
Direct or iterative solver
Coupled stress/pore pressure using Biot theory
Data Interpretation :
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
Far-Field Stress :
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
Groundwater :
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
Loads :
Point load
Line load
Distributed load
Ponded water load
Staged loading
Springs
Seismic loading
Dynamic analysis
Materials :
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
Meshing :
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
Modeling :
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
Support :
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