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Python in Itasca Software
Online
11 Jun 2025 - 12 Jun 2025

This course provides an overview of the Python programming language in Itasca software.

The course covers major applications of Python to extend modeling capabilities with the Itasca codes through many applied examples.


IMAT Training: Revolutionizing Mining Analysis with Seismology & Numerical Modeling
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
16 Jun 2025 - 18 Jun 2025

Explore IMAT’s latest upgrade, uniting open-pit and underground mining capabilities for faster, smarter, and more efficient modeling.


Itasca Educational Partnership

IEP Research Program
IEP Teaching Program

Software Tutorials

Fluid Flow through Jointed Rock

As well as flow through joints, 3DEC 5.2 is capable of simulating fluid flow through the blocks or the matrix (i.e., between the joints). It is assumed that the blocks represent a saturated, permeable solid, such as soil or fractured rock mass.

FLAC3D 6.0 Model Generation using the Building Blocks and Geometric Data Sets
PFC 7 Generating A Bonded Assembly

This tutorial will guide you through how to create a simple material using the linear parallel bond-model.

Technical Papers

Elastic Properties of Fractured Rock Masses With Frictional Properties and Power Law Fracture Size Distributions

We derive the relationships that link the general elastic properties of rock masses to the geometrical properties of fracture networks, with a special emphasis to the case of frictional crack surfaces.

We extend the well-known elastic solutions for free-slipping cracks to fractures whose plane resistance is defined by an elastic fracture (shear) stiffness ks and a stick-slip Coulomb threshold.

Using MINEDWto simulate pore pressure as input for FLAC3Dand 3DEC

It has become common practice to create a three-dimensional (3-D) geomechanical model for the analysis of rock stability.

Input to Orepass Design — A Numerical Modeling Study

Orepass design guidelines required for potentially continued mining at depth. Rock strength and stress state were validated through comparison with observed fallouts in orepasses and shafts and the optimal orientation and location of orepasses for future mining were determined.

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11 Jun
Python in Itasca Software
This course provides an overview of the Python programming language in Itasca software.The course covers major applications of Python t... Read More
9 Jun
Venez nous rencontrer à ISFOG 2025!
Meet us at the 5th International Symposium on Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics (ISFOG 2025) that will be held in Nantes - France.... Read More
16 Jun
IMAT Training: Revolutionizing Mining Analysis with Seismology & Numerical Modeling
Explore IMAT’s latest upgrade, uniting open-pit and underground mining capabilities for faster, smarter, and more efficient modeling.... Read More