Following heavy rains, a North Carolina highway slope showed cracking. Using Slide 7.0’s back-analysis module, engineers determined the in-situ undrained shear strength was 40% lower than lab values. They designed a geogrid reinforcement layout and verified it with Slide’s reinforcement capacity check.
Automatically generates failure surfaces originating and terminating within user-defined intervals along the slope surface.
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | SLIDE 7.0 ENGINE | +-------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Material Models | Groundwater Analysis | | • Mohr-Coulomb | • Finite Element Seepage (FEA) | | • Anisotropic Strength | • Water Tables & Piezolines | | • Generalized Hoek-Brown | • Rapid Drawdown Modeling | +-------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Support & External Loads | | • Soil Nails, Geotextiles, Anchors, and Micro-piles | | • Seismic Load Coefficients (Pseudo-static analysis) | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ 1. Advanced Material Modeling Rocscience Slide 7.0 Full -
Rocscience Slide 7.0 (now commonly referred to as a comprehensive 2D limit equilibrium software used to evaluate the factor of safety of soil and rock slopes
Engineers can define statistical distributions (Normal, Lognormal, Uniform) for parameters like cohesion, friction angle, and unit weight. The software runs thousands of iterations to determine the Probability of Failure (PF) alongside the traditional Factor of Safety. Following heavy rains, a North Carolina highway slope
: Users can explicitly model the structural contribution of engineering interventions. The software handles:
Allows for the analysis of fluctuating water tables over time, mimicking rapid drawdown scenarios in dams or heavy rainfall events. The software runs thousands of iterations to determine
Choose how the software searches for the critical slip surface (e.g., Grid Search, Slope Search).
If you encounter any issues with Rocscience Slide 7.0, try the following: