Commands

Wrap zone and shell-based structural elements with PFC walls. This coupling allows for balls and clumps to interact directly with zones and shell-based structural elements.

Note

  • In order for PFC to cycle in a coupled fashion, FLAC3D must be in large strain mode. This is set with the model largestrain command.
  • The contact, PFC and wall-zone plugins must be loaded either via the Tools ‣ Plugins menu item or with the program load module command. In order to visualize PFC model components, PFC gui plugin must also be loaded; the program load guimodule command is used in this case.

Wall-Zone Commands

wall-zone create Wrap FLAC3D zones with PFC walls.
wall-zone full-computation Turn on/off full computation mode.
wall-zone stiffness-factor Set the multiplicative factor for stiffnesses to be added to...
wall-zone update-tolerance Set the tolerance for triggering zone updates.

Wall-Structure Commands

wall-structure create Wrap FLAC3D structural elements with PFC walls.
wall-structure full-computation Turn on/off full computation mode.
wall-structure stiffness-factor Set the multiplicative factor for stiffnesses to be added to...
wall-structure update-tolerance Set the tolerance for triggering structural element updates.