This project focuses on the collapse process of a system of rock blocks. Starting from the description of the rock escarpment and its associate fracture system, the objective is to develop a three-dimensional model with a mechanical description.
Within this approach, the first step is to get the numerical topography of the rock surface, which is obtained by a laser scanning process. Then, the internal cutting of the solid mass is estimated  from the observations of fractures on the surface. The obtained rock block system is thus represented by a set of polyhedric discrete elements.
The evolution of this system is simulated by using the Discrete Element Sofware YADE, which uses an explicit integration scheme to solve the dynamic equations.