Multiple Relaxation Boundary Conditions for Simulating Delay in Support Installation

In a cavern excavation model I’m trying to apply multiple relaxation factors to each excavation stage to simulate delay for support installation. I have done this previously in 3DEC by storing the reaction force of gridpoints along the excavation boundary and then adding this reaction force back to the model after a new relaxation command is applied (see below post)

Applying Multiple Block Relax/Block Gridpoint Reaction Boundary Conditions - 3DEC - Itasca Software Forum

When trying the same approach in a FLAC model however I get the error that the gridpoint applied force is an intrinsic model value that cannot be written to. Does anyone have advice or tips on how to get around this?

You want to use gp.force.load. See this example.

1 Like

Awesome thanks so much!