ITASCA's Mining Analysis Toolbox
A Comprehensive Mining Toolbox for Numerical Modeling, Seismic Analysis, and More
SOLUTIONS FOR VARIED MINING CHALLENGES
What Kinds Of Problems Can IMAT Solve?
Mining
- Compute elastic stresses around mine workings
- 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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Licensing & Pricing
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