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SPECFEM 3D Geotech is an open-source, parallel and cross-platform geotechnical engineering application. This software was originally developed for slope stability analysis and simulation of multistage excavation. Main features include surface loading, water table, gravity loading, and pseudostatic earthquake loading. The software is parallelized based on MPI and domain decomposition.

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We use SPECFEM3D GEOTECH 1.2.0 ( Gharti et al., 2012a; Gharti et al., 2012b; Gharti et al., 2017) published under the GPL3 license.

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Gharti, H.N.; Komatitsch, D.; Langer, L.; Martin, R.; Oye, V.; Tromp, J.; Vaaland, U.; Yan, Z. (2017), SPECFEM 3D Geotech: an open-source, parallel and cross-platform geotechnical engineering application, doi: 10.5281/zenodo.820154, url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.820154

Primary References

Gharti, H.N.; Komatitsch, D.; Oye, V.; Martin, R.; Tromp, J. (2012a), Application of an elastoplastic spectral-element method to 3D slope stability analysis, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 91 (1) , 1-26, doi: 10.1002/nme.3374, url: http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/nme.3374

Gharti, H.N.; Oye, V.; Komatitsch, D.; Tromp, J. (2012b), Simulation of multistage excavation based on a 3D spectral-element method, Computers & Structures, 100-101, 54-69, doi: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2012.03.005, url: http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0045794912000727