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Rocscience's 2020 - Year in Review

Published on: Dec 14, 2020 Updated on: Jul 20, 2022 Read: less than 1 minute
In 2020, our programs received a number of new and improved features to help you get the most of your geotechnical analysis. Check out the full list of additions and also what's coming in 2021. January RocPlane Ponded Water Depth option was added to Export Statistical Datasets. RocFall Event option was added to Filter Results. April RSPile Peripheral Bars & Edit Coordinates feature were added in the concrete designer May RS3 New Tunnel Designer Radar Data Import IDS Georadar TRE Altamira Advanced Material Models were added Dips Computation speed and memory management of files with filters were optimized. UnWedge Common Support Types were added from Slide2. June RS2 Strain Softening for Joints was introduced New Dynamic boundary conditions were added – Hydro Mass, Nodal Mass Introduced Relief Well Finn-Martin Model was added to the material library RocFall Enhanced charts options added Predefined material and rock library common types were added July RSPile Pile numbering system was introduced Users can now specify Pile location at time of entry EX3 Material data to user data The Spalling criterion data type New results types specific to joints August RS2 Users can now Assign anisotropic surface for anisotropic permeability Apply boundary conditions of seepage analysis to undrained material RS3 RS2 Import to RS3 Surfaces can now be restrained in their Normal direction. September RocFall Plotting multi-values in the envelope plots was added October RS2 Wavin Geosynthetic Dictionary RSPile Introducing Bored Pile Analysis Settle3 Ground improvement – stone column & vibro-compaction were introduced New Embankment Designer EX3 Users can now change Strength parameters to calculate strength factor without redoing analysis UnWedge Tunnel Orientation Analyzer feature was added Common support types from Slide2 was added November Slide3 Added Probabilistic Analysis   Users can choose from common manufacturer types from the Geosynthetics Library Introduced new search limit options with ability to define arbitrary shape The program can now read LIDAR files from different manufacturers  SWedge Statistical analysis was added to bolt properties. December 2020 RocData to RSData Condensed November 2020 Slide2, Slide3 New algorithm introduced - Particle Swarm Multi-Modal Optimization Stochastic response surface was added    New weak layer handling and vertical weak layer algorithm Probabilistic random shear strength was introduced February 2020 Slide2, Slide3, RS2, RSPile, Settle3, RocFall New Report Generator October 2020 SWedge, UnWedge Integration with Dips March 2020 SWedge, UnWedge, RocSupport, RocPlane, RocTopple Compute and generate results for several models with Batch Compute. Automate model inputs, compute, and generate results with Automate from Excel feature. Coming Soon in 2021 Slide2 New design factors Generalized Hoek Brown discrete function strength type    Slide3 Block models   RSPile integration   Two step discrete import  RS2 Introducing Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM) Pile Model Thermal Analysis RS3 New data imports - 3VGeomatics & Reutech Normal and Shear stresses from a plane Pore pressure grid visualization by value User data with material properties RSPile Belled piles Ability to change pile cross section with depth Analysis of multiple piles in Driven and Bored modes Settle3 Soil profile interpolation from cross-section Stone column permeability Multiple load import ETABS integration Dips Import Excel Data into Grid Data Increasing maximum number of Grid Data RocPlane & SWedge Pattern bolting and specifying exact location for bolt placement. RocSupport New methodology for assessing the distribution of support in a NATM tunneling project CCM-TBM for segmentally lined tunnels A simplified method for tunnel support analysis under non-hydrostatic loading EX3 New options for Data Visualization Assign properties automatically from mining plan spreadsheets New FMM solver option to substantially improve engine performance, particularly when solving larger models CPillar New progressive bending failure to Elastic Analysis.
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