Compute plastic stresses and rock yielding around mine workings
Estimate surface subsidence and deformations around excavations
Predict displacements along faults and joints
Bridge the gap of mining seismicity to better understand your operation (option):
Capture model synthetic seismicity
Import mine site seismicity
Compare model seismicity to measured seismicity
Derive in-situ stress directions
Evaluate rock mass failure mechanisms
Track mine cave propagation via energy index and seismic source mechanism
WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT
Why Choose IMAT?
Explore IMAT's comprehensive features and user-friendly interface. Unlock powerful computing capabilities without needing to build meshes or work with data files or scripting. Discover why IMAT is the ideal choice:
Analyses
Powered by FLAC3D for accuracy and results you can trust
Multiple material domains
Calculate and visualize stresses and displacements
Import mine geometries for visualization and model creation
Multiple constitutive models for rock including Hoek-Brown and Ubiquitous Joints
Model failure and plasticity
Seismic option for comparing synthetic and site seismicity (locations, magnitudes and mechanisms) to validate models with real-world data and see the unseeable to better understand your operation
IMASS option for powerful strain-softening analysis of mining
Ease of Use
UI-driven modeling with no scripting needed and clear property specification to increase efficiency and reduce errors
Simulate the mine plan as a series of staged excavations, incorporating real-time into FLAC3D and allowing easy comparison between model results and real-world measured information
Easy specification of material properties and in-situ stresses through dialogs with meaningful defaults included
Easy model creation via automatic octree generation
Extensive help system including dozens of how-to videos
Querying of stresses or displacements at specified points can be done simply by clicking on the finished model
Easy movie generation for interpreting results
Powerful Capabilities
Powered by FLAC3D
Combines multiple capabilities into one product
Block model visualization
Advanced seismic (option) analysis
Start using IMASS (option) in your mine scale modeling
Performance
UI-driven model building and an interface targeted to mining applications makes model building faster than ever (minutes or hours instead of days or weeks)
Powered by FLAC3D
Flexibility
Use Basic mode to quickly run simple elastic or plastic models with no distractions
Use Advanced mode to easily construct complex models with access to all generated FLAC3D data files to learn FLAC3D and customize models
SOLUTIONS FOR EVERYONE
Who Should Use IMAT?
Focus on safe operations, efficient mine planning, and mine economics
Incorporate real-time data and monitoring into models (e.g., seismics)
Efficiently evaluate multiple property sets and design scenarios
All in a user-friendly, interactive, structured modeling workflow
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