6 posts tagged with "Training"

mXrap.com has a new training videos website!

Moment tensor analysis is a topic that carries a decent level of uncertainty and confusion for many people. So I'm going to lay it out as simply as I can. For this post, I'm not going to go into too many details on how moment tensors are actually calculated. But, I'm going to summarise the things I think are most important for geotechnical engineers to know for interpreting moment tensor results.

The root upgrade that coincides with the software upgrade beyond v5.9 includes a new app for creating and exporting models of mine geometry. Stope, cave and development geometry is a fundamental aspect of most geotechnical analysis. Mine geometry also varies over time and capturing these changes is critical in any back analysis or numerical modelling that investigates stability or monitoring parameters over time.

We started making training videos about 12 months ago and feedback has been quite positive. At the last AGM, a suggestion came for a training programme aimed at new users to mXrap. The training videos are currently stored by app but a specific programme would help new users with a logical order for progressing through the training content.

There have been some interface changes made to the mXrap software in versions 5.6.6 or later. The right-hand-side controls have had a bit of a face-lift and now there are separate coloured tabs for exporting, selections, annotations and clipping.

If you want to learn more about mXrap, we don't have a user manual to read. Who would want to read through one of those! We have been writing 'cheat sheets' to show new users the main features of mXrap.