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modeling capabilies of RS3, and

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whether or not the program can

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model certain situaons.
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Open pit slope
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your RS3 modeling quesons, and

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Twin tunnels with
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applicaons.
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Sequenced Stope Model

You can easily model stope mining in RS3. We have prepared a brief tutorial to illustrate a
simple drift mining and backfill sequence. Note that with the powerful meshing capabilities in
RS3, you can easily customize the mesh for individual volumes (see the Mesh Customization in
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RS Developer’s Tip from a previous RocNews for details).

The Simplified Mining Sequence Tutorial walks you through the modeling and results viewing
for a sample drift mine.

3D view of excavated drift with ore and backfill

Total displacements on an excavated volume

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Displacement Results on a Horizontal Contour and Line Query

The figures below compare the total displacement results on a contour near the bottom of the
shaft.

Extruded in horizontal direction

Extruded in vertical direction

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Total Displacement Along Query

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Comparison of total displacements along query lines

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Terrain with Stope Mining

Here we’ve added some simple terrain to the stope mine shown above, illustrating that
multiple model details can be captured in RS3.

Top and 3D view of model

Side view of model

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Dam
This model illustrates the type of detail you can get by increasing the number of slices. The dam
model below was constructed with approximately 130 slices.

Dam model

Total displacement contours

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Z-direction displacement contours

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Raft with Piles

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In a previous RocNews we talked about piled raft modeling in RS (see Modeling Foundations in
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RS ). In that article we looked at the following models:

- Vertically loaded pile in clay

- Piled raft foundation in sand (with different configurations of piles)
- Piled raft foundation in multiple material strata

Here we’ll look at a piled raft foundation for a building.

Piled raft foundation model

Total displacement contours (two user-defined query planes)

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Open Pit and Slope Stability (Manual SSR)

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RScan be used to model slope stability in open pit mines. The simplified full-scale open pit
model below was used to examine the effect of the three-dimensional geometry on wall
stability.

Open pit mesh

Contours of total displacement at SRF=2.5

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Tunnel with Two Headings

This model took approximately 15 minutes to build and run, and demonstrates the utility of the
Sequence Designer. The modeling steps were as follows:

1. Import tunnel geometry (as excavation boundary). The tunnel could also be defined
within the program.
2. Add external boundary.
3. Define Heading boundaries.
4. Use the Sequence Designer to specify the excavation sequence.
5. Assign material properties.
6. Assign restraints (underground auto-restraint option)
7. Mesh model (kept default settings)
8. Compute and view results

Tunnel model

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Total displacement contours

(left: exterior contours, query plane; right: excavation contour)

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