Slide Tutorials

The Slide Tutorials provide easy to follow, step-by-step instructions, demonstrating how to define and analyze many different types of problems.

The tutorials are in PDF format, click the links to open the files, which can be printed. To view a brief summary of each tutorial click the "view summary" links. Additional tutorials are available in "movie" format, as listed below.

Tutorials

	Tutorials (PDF files)	Tutorial Summary
01	Quick Start Tutorial	01 summary
02	Materials and Loading	02 summary
03	Non-Circular Surfaces	03 summary
04	Composite Surfaces	04 summary
05	Water Pressure Grid	05 summary
06	Support	06 summary
07	Finite Element Groundwater Seepage Analysis	07 summary
08	Probabilistic Analysis	08 summary
09	Sensitivity Analysis	09 summary
10	Water Table Statistics	10 summary
11	Overall Slope Reliability	11 summary
12	Excess Pore Pressure (B-bar method)	12 summary
13	Rapid Drawdown Analysis (B-bar method)	13 summary
14	Groundwater Flow in Cofferdam	14 summary
15	Levee with Toe Drain	15 summary
16	Tension Crack	16 summary
17	NEW - Multi-Stage Rapid Drawdown	17 summary
18	NEW - Transient Groundwater Analysis	18 summary
19	NEW - Transient Groundwater with Slope Stability	19 summary
20	NEW - Generalized Anisotropic Material	20 summary
21	NEW - Slope Design with Eurocode 7	21 summary
22	NEW - Slope Angle Optimization	22 summary

Movies

	Tutorials (Movies)
01	Dimensioning and Annotation
02	Back Analysis of Support Force
03	Sensitivity Analysis
04	Excess Pore Pressure (B-bar method)
05	Critical Surface Search Optimization