To be competitive, industrial companies improve process efficiency and optimize designs using numerical simulation, in addition to experimentation, to gain detailed understanding of each control parameter.
For over 20 years, Itasca has provided software and services for the pharmaceutical, chemical, materials processing, mining, oil and gas, and agricultural engineering industries. Primarily using Particle Flow Code (PFC), Itasca has worked on materials handling and processing projects that include:
Granular packing and vibrational compaction
Mechanical strength of porous materials
Mechanical characterization and segmentation process of fibrous materials from 3D tomographic images
Limiting segregation phenomena when mixing, filling, and discharging a container
Agglomeration of a powder
Rock mass response to chemically induced pressure pulses
Flow optimization in mine ore passes
Ore recovery and dilution in cave mining leading to the development of REBOP
Optimization performance of mixers and conveyor systems
Process research (static and dynamic) aimed at achieving maximum compactness of recycling products (e.g., bauxite powder)
Management of sorting and segregation of materials in a production line
Representation and mechanical characterization of a fibrous structure from 3D tomographic images
Modeling fragmentation of grains/blocks under large deformations
Sockets to couple with third-party software such as ANSYS and Leapfrog
These capabilities have permitted engineers and researchers to conduct equipment prototyping, to analyze material mixing and segregation, and to simulate: agricultural processing, composite materials, mine orepass flow, cave mining recovery and dilution, pipe wear, and tool-soil/rock interaction (drilling, rock-cutting, soil-ploughing), amongst other applications.
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Itasca has announced the release of FLAC2D v9 Itasca has announced the release of FLAC2D v9, revolutionizing the way we analyze and predict... Read More
6th Itasca Symposium on Applied Numerical Modeling The next Itasca Symposium will take place June 3 - 6, 2024, in Toronto, Canada.... Read More
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Upcoming Events
23Sep
Getting Started with FLAC2D/FLAC3D
This training is an introduction to continuous modeling with FLAC2D and FLAC3D. At the end of the course, participants will master the ...
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14Oct
Getting Started with 3DEC
Live Online Introductory Training Course.
October 14-15, 2025...
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