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FTDTOC2

The document provides details on commands for a numerical modeling program. It includes sections on common conventions, commands organized by function, and a listing of all commands. Tables and figures are also provided to explain various modeling concepts.

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Command Reference Contents - 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 COMMAND REFERENCE
1.1 Common Conventions and Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
1.1.1 Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
1.1.2 Interactive Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
1.1.3 Commands Accepting the range Phrase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4
1.1.4 Orientation of Nodes and Faces within a Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-7
1.2 Commands by Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9
1.2.1 Specify Program Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9
1.2.2 Access the Graphical User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9
1.2.3 Specify Special Calculation Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 10
1.2.4 Specify Additional Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 10
1.2.5 Input Problem Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 10
1.2.6 Create Named Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 10
1.2.7 Assign Constitutive Models and Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 11
1.2.8 Assign Initial Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 12
1.2.9 Apply Boundary Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 12
1.2.10 Specify Structural Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 13
1.2.11 Specify Interfaces or Joints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 13
1.2.12 Specify User-defined Variables or Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 13
1.2.13 Monitor Model Conditions during the Solution Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 13
1.2.14 Solve the Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 14
1.2.15 Generate Model Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 14
1.3 FLAC 3D Commands — Detailed Listing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 14

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TABLES
Table 1.1 Interactive input editing keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
Table 1.2 Commands accepting the range phrase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4
Table 1.3 Summary of primitive mesh shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 62
Table 1.4 Summary of PLOT manipulation keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 133
Table 1.5 Interactive keystrokes in plot mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 146
Table 1.6 List of available plot items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 148
Table 1.7 Color switch keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 148
Table 1.8 Property groups by failure segment for the bilinear, strain-hardening/softening
ubiquitous-joint model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 269
Table 1.9 Major keywords for the SEL command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 297
Table 1.10 Summary of SET keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 351

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FIGURES
Figure 1.1 Zone geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8
Figure 1.2 Local gridpoint axes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 18
Figure 1.3 Local face axes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 25
Figure 1.4 Brick volume defined by eight vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 56
Figure 1.5 Polygon surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 56
Figure 1.6 Extruded polygon surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 57
Figure 1.7 Extruded polygon surface with two ends closed (v1, v4, v1 and v4 form a
surface) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 58
Figure 1.8 Extruded polygon surface with two ends closed and capped (v5 and v5 are
vertices at the centroids of the end surfaces) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 58
Figure 1.9 Arc polygon surface (for segment = 4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 59
Figure 1.10 Brick mesh — brick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 64
Figure 1.11 Degenerate brick mesh — dbrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 64
Figure 1.12 Wedge mesh — wedge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 65
Figure 1.13 Uniform wedge mesh — uwedge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 65
Figure 1.14 Pyramid mesh — pyramid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 66
Figure 1.15 Tetrahedron — tet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 66
Figure 1.16 Cylindrical mesh — cylinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 67
Figure 1.17 Radially graded mesh around brick — radbrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 67
Figure 1.18 Radially graded mesh around parallelepiped-shaped tunnel — radtunnel . . . 1 - 68
Figure 1.19 Radially graded mesh around cylindrical-shaped tunnel —
radcylinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 68
Figure 1.20 Cylinder shell mesh — cshell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 69
Figure 1.21 Cylinder intersection — cylint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 69
Figure 1.22 Tunnel intersection — tunint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 70
Figure 1.23 Average zone contour calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 171
Figure 1.24 Gradient zone contour calculation (default) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 172
Figure 1.25 Orientation of the node-local system for a node used by cableSELs or pileSELs 1 - 327
Figure 1.26 Orientation of the node-local system for a node used by geogridSELs or lin-
erSELs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 327

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EXAMPLES
Example 1.1 A portion of a FLAC 3Dgrid file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 104
Example 1.2 Example DCX movie creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 123
Example 1.3 Example AVI movie creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 124
Example 1.4 Stress contour plots for gravity loading of three types of grid . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 170

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