Slide Tutorials > Probabilistic Analysis
This tutorial will familiarize the user with the basic probabilistic analysis capabilities of Slide. Cohesion, friction angle and unit weight will be defined as random variables, and the probabilistic analysis will be carried out for the (deterministic) Global Minimum slip surface.
Probabilistic Analysis (click to view PDF file of tutorial)
Topics Covered in this Tutorial
global minimum probabilistic analysis
monte carlo analysis
defining random variables
statistical distributions
mean, standard deviation, min and max values
normal distribution
probabilistic compute
mean safety factor
probability of failure
reliability index
histogram plot
cumulative plot
scatter plot
convergence plot
correlation coefficient
data sampler
sampling method, latin hypercube
number of samples
random number generation
random versus pseudo-random
Summary of results after probabilistic analysis