SlabCutOpt: A code for ornamental stone slab cut optimization

Rock masses are naturally affected by discontinuities, joints and fractures that affect their exploitation. After block extraction, different cutting pattern can produce different recovery ratio of the block. The optimization of the cutting pattern can be computed if the discontinuities are mapped by the use of non-destructive methods. We propose a software code able to compute the number of intersected slabs by different cuttings scenarios. The algorithm adopts a brute force computation of several scenarios as specified by the user. The software uses the Open MP library in order to reduce computation time.