RocFall is a statistical analysis program designed to assist with assessment of slopes at risk for rockfalls. Energy, velocity and "bounce height" envelopes for the entire slope are determined by the program, as is the location of rock endpoints. Distributions of energy, velocity and bounce-height are also calculated along the slope profile; Distributions can be graphed and comprehensive statistics are automatically calculated.
To assist with determining coefficients of restitution, RocFall 4.0 now includes a large table of coefficients of restitution that was compiled after an extensive literature search. RocFall also provides a Material Wizard that uses statistics to determine the coefficient of restitution (RN) for a material, based on the back-calculation of rock endpoints. Rock paths can be filtered. (e.g. you can right-click on a barrier and select, from the many impacts on the barrier, 10 paths that had the highest velocity when they contacted the barrier).
RocFall 4.0 now allows you to create faster and easier high quality output. Printing and margins are improved, as is the quality of the printed graphs. Graphs can be exported to Excel with 1-click and the slope and rock-paths can easily be exported to a DXF file for import into a CAD program. The Drawing toolkit has been improved to include importing of bitmap files, multi-line text-boxes that can be auto-filled with relevant simulation data, axes that can be dragged-and-dropped to show coordinates on a printed page and much more.
