Non-Circular Surfaces Tutorial

This tutorial will use the same model as Tutorial 02 Materials & Loading, to demonstrate how an analysis can be performed using non-circular (piece-wise linear) slip surfaces. The model features a weak layer, pore pressure defined by a water table and a uniform distributed load. A Block Search will be used to search for the critical non-circular slip surface.

Non-Circular Surfaces Tutorial (click to view PDF file of tutorial)

Topics Covered in this Tutorial

weak layer
block search for non-circular surfaces
surface options
block search objects
block search polyline
view all surfaces
filter surfaces
graph query
block search projection angles
critical surface search optimization
random surface generation
random versus pseudo-random

Model with weak layer, external load, water table (non-circular surface search)