Joint Properties

To define Joint Properties (e.g. shear strength, water pressure, waviness):

  1. Select Input Data from the toolbar, the Analysis menu or the right click menu.

  2. Select the Joint Properties tab in the Input Data dialog.

  3. For a new file, a single default property type will already be defined. If you only require a single property (i.e. all of your joints have the same strength characteristics), then you can simply define the properties (shear strength, water pressure, waviness) for this one property type.

  4. If you need more than one property type (for example: if each of your joints has different strength characteristics), then select the Add button to create additional properties. When you select the Add button, you will see the Add Joint Property dialog, which gives you the following options:

Note: you can enter the "Number of properties to add" if you want to create more than one new property type at the same time.

When you select OK in the Add Joint Property dialog, new joint property(s) will be added to the list of properties in the Joint Properties dialog. If you used the Import from file option, all joint properties will be imported from the selected file.

  1. You can change the default naming of the joint properties, as follows:

  1. To define the properties, for each property in the list, click on the property name and enter the following information:

For information select the links to the above topics.

Assigning Joint Properties

Once your joint properties have all been defined, you must assign them to the desired joints. To assign joint properties:

Note: if you only have one joint property type (i.e. the same property for all joints), this does not need to be assigned, it will already be assigned by default to all joints. Assigning properties is only required if you have more than one joint property type.