Water Pressure Grid Tutorial

This tutorial will demonstrate how to use a water pressure grid to model pore water pressure in Slide. Water pressure grid data can be obtained from piezometer measurements, flow nets, or the results of a groundwater seepage analysis.

Water Pressure Grid Tutorial (click to view PDF file of tutorial)

Topics Covered in this Tutorial

project settings, groundwater method
pore water pressure grid (total head)
ponded water defined by water table
circular surface grid search
interpolation methods
reading in a water pressure grid file
digitizing a flownet
contour options
add query
graph pore pressure
methods of defining ponded water

Pore pressure defined by a water pressure grid (blue triangles)