Irazu version 6.1 has launched and there are several new and exciting features that have been implemented including: Elevation-varying water table (Irazu 2D) A new hydraulic boundary condition has been added to Irazu 2D Hydro, granting the capability to impose elevation-varying hydrostatic fluid pressures to a model. In addition, the water table can be temporally … Read more
Geomechanica is launching a guest blog series, written by experts and numerical modellers in the field of rock engineering. In the first post of this series, we’re showcasing the work of Andrés Alcolea on “A pragmatic methodology to abstract the EDZ around tunnels of a geological radioactive waste repository – Application to the HG-A experiment … Read more
Following up from our previous blog post on 3D FEMDEM Simulations, 3D simulations of a tunnel excavated in a weak rock (resembling properties of a clay shale) are presented here (E=3.8 GPa, ν=0.25, σt=0.41 MPa, c=5 MPa). In this simplified case study, the entire length of the tunnel was excavated at once at the beginning … Read more