Welcome to PlatRock documentation¶

PlatRock is a multi-model software for the numerical simulation of rockfalls. This scientific tool assists the expert assessment of rockfall risk (retro analysis, trajectory modelling, evaluation of the protective role of forest, protective structure design, risk and protective forest mapping). It is mainly written in python, and some modules are written in cython to speed up calculations.

PlatRock-WebUI is a closed-source GUI for PlatRock, currently hosted at Inrae (Grenoble, France).

Disclaimer¶

PlatRock is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.

Code hosting & support¶

PlatRock core is licensed under GPLv3, the source code is available on the gitlab repository. There is also a pypi package which enables the direct installation of PlatRock through the pip tool, but it may not be always up-to-date.

To get support or request features please open new issues on PlatRock gitlab issues tracker.

Note

You will need a gitlab account to post new issues.