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Summary of Error Codes

When a safety factor cannot be calculated for a slip surface, Slide2 will write an error code to the output file, rather than a safety factor. These error codes are NEGATIVE numbers such as –101, -102, -103 etc.

These error codes are displayed when you are using the Query Invalid Surfaces option, the Filter Surfaces option, and they are also listed in the Report Generator analysis summary.

TIP: the most convenient way to view slip surfaces which correspond to error codes, is to use the Filter Surfaces option, select the Surfaces with Error Code option in the dialog, and select the error code. This will display the surfaces on the model corresponding to the error code and may help you to troubleshoot or understand why the error code is occurring.

The meaning of these error codes is summarized below.

ERROR CODE

EXPLANATION

-96Invalid slip surface polyline.

-97

Factor of safety is out of valid range set by user.

-98

Circular slip surface is entirely within the tension crack zone.

-99

Slip surface intersects an infinite strength material. If infinite strength materials are defined for a model, a large number of potential slip surfaces may show this error code. This is normal.

-100

(This error code not currently in use. Formerly it was a check for both slip surface / slope intersections having the same y-coordinate e.g. intersection with a horizontal surface. However, this screened out valid surfaces in some cases, and is no longer in use).

-101

Only one (or none) slip surface / slope intersections.

-102

Two slip circle / slope intersections, but resulting arc is actually outside soil region (i.e. the slip circle is tangent to the slope at two locations).

-103

Two slip surface / slope intersections, but one or more slip surface / nonslope External Boundary intersections lie between them. This usually occurs when a slip circle extends past the bottom of the External Boundary, but may also occur on a benched slope model, when a double set of Slope Limits is being used.

-104

Same as –102, but slip circle / nonslope intersections also exist. These points lie outside the arc defined by the two slip circle / slope intersections.

-105

More than two slip surface / slope intersections with no valid slip surface.

-106

Average slice width is less than .0001 * (maximum horizontal extent of soil region). This can occur if a slip surface only intersects a very small portion of the slope, or when a nearly vertical slip surface is created. This limitation is imposed to avoid numerical errors which may result from too many slices, or too small a slip region.

-107

Total driving moment (Bishop) or total driving force (Janbu) is negative. This will occur if the wrong failure direction is specified, or if high loads are applied against the expected slip direction (e.g. distributed, line or anchor loads).

-108

The absolute value of the total driving moment or total driving force is < 0.1. This is to limit the calculation of extremely high safety factors if the driving force is very small. (0.1 is an arbitrary number). This most often occurs when a slip surface intersects a horizontal portion of the slope (driving force or moment can be zero, or a very small number).

-109

Soil type for slice base not located. It may occur for circular slip surfaces if a low number of slices is combined with certain soil geometries, such that the midpoint of a slice base is actually outside the soil region, even though the circular slip surface is wholly within the soil region. It can also occur if the midpoint of a slice is above or too close to the external boundary.

-110

The water table or a piezoline does not span the slip region for a given slip surface, when Water Surfaces is specified as the method of pore pressure calculation in Project Settings. If this error occurs, check that the water table or piezoline(s) span all the appropriate material zones.

-111

Safety factor iteration did not converge within the Maximum Number of Iterations specified in the Analysis Methods dialog (normal convergence is within 3 or 4 iterations for Bishop / Janbu analysis methods). If this occurs, very low safety factors or incorrect material properties may be the cause.

-112

The coefficient ma = cosa(1 + tanatanf / F) < 0.2 for the final iteration of the safety factor calculation. This screens out some slip surfaces which may not be valid in the context of the analysis, in particular, deep-seated slip surfaces with many high negative base angle slices in the passive zone.

If you wish to calculate a safety factor for these surfaces, you can clear the checkbox for the "Check m_alpha < 0.2" option in Project Settings in the Slide2 Model program, before you run the analysis. See the Analysis Methods topic for details.

-113

Slip surface intersects the External Boundary outside of user-defined Slope Limits. This only applies if a slip surface does not intersect the slope within user-defined Slope Limits, but does intersect within the default Slope Limits. If a slip surface does not intersect within the default Slope Limits, then error code –101 will apply.

-114

Slip surface has reverse curvature. This can occur when the slip center of a circular slip surface is below the upper y-coordinates of the slope. If you wish to analyze such surfaces, make sure that the Create Tension Crack For Reverse Curvature Surfaces option is selected in the Surface Options dialog.

-115

Surface is too shallow. Maximum height of any slice is LESS THAN the Minimum depth value, specified in the Surface Options dialog. This error code will only be reported if the Minimum Depth option has been enabled in the Surface Options dialog.

-116

Not enough slices to analyze the surface. This may occur if the number of intersections of the slip surface with material boundaries, is greater than the Number of Slices specified in Project Settings. This may occur if you have a large number of material boundaries and/or a low number of slices. To avoid this error code, increase the Number of Slices in Project Settings.

-117

Error in Discrete Interpolation of strength parameters. Either the discrete function was not found or the interpolation did not work.

-118

Surface does not pass through the Search Focus.

-119

Non-circular slip surface is entirely within the tension crack zone.

-120

Tensile effective normal stress on the base of a slice exceeds the tensile strength of the material. This check is only applied if the Tensile Stress Check option is selected in Project Settings > Methods > Advanced.

Allowable tensile stress is zero for all strength criteria models, except Hoek-Brown, Generalized Hoek-Brown and Shear-Normal strength function. For these 3 models, tensile strength can exist. See the Analysis Methods topic for more information.

-121

Concave failure surface, only convex surfaces have been defined as being allowed.

-122

Unable to compute undrained shear strength in drawdown stage. Most likely due to negative base effective stresses.

-123

Surface radius equal or less than the internal cutoff of 0.01.

-124

A slice has a width less than minimum acceptable value. You can modify this in the advanced project settings.

-125

A slice has a weight less than the user-defined cutoff. You can modify this in the advanced project settings.

-126

A slice has a base angle greater than the user-defined cutoff. You can modify this in the advanced project settings.

-127

Surface weight below minimum weight. You can modify this in the Advanced project settings.

-128

Surface volume below minimum volume. You can modify this in the Advanced project settings.

-129

Can not compute anisotropic angle along slip surface.

-130

Surface minimum elevation below defined limit. This can be modified in the Surface Options dialog.

-133Error interpolating a D value in a Generalized-Hoek Brown damage zone.
-138Error calculating variable GHB parameters at base of slice.
-145Slip mass has invalid boundary slices.

-149

Slip surface was clipped vertically by a weak layer in a region of compression. Such a surface cannot be evaluated using Limit Equilibrium. For more information, see Help Documentation on weak layers.

-162Too many weak layers (>20) for automatic case generation. Consider suppressing or combining some weak layers, or using Surface Options > Heuristic weak layer handling with Particle Swarm Optimization.
-163Error validating the block model in the section from Slide3.
-166Per-block information was specified at a given block, but does not exist
in the block model.

-200

Factor of safety = 0. Possibly due to normal / shear resistance = zero along part of the slip surface.

-300

Could not find non-vertical slices for the Sarma nonvertical analysis methods.

-301

Unable to compute average strength parameters for the Sarma nonvertical analysis. Define Cohesion and Phi instead of using the Average Values.

-302

Rapid Drawdown is not supported for the Sarma vertical and nonvertical analysis methods.

-303

Excess Pore Pressure is not supported for the Sarma vertical and nonvertical analysis methods.

-304

Average strength parameters cannot be computed for an Infinite Strength material. Define Cohesion and Phi instead of using the Average Values.

-305

Ky cannot be calculated for this surface.

-306

The staged pseudostatic seismic method is not supported for the Sarma vertical and nonvertical analysis methods.

-307

Newmark displacement cannot be calculated for this surface.

-415RSPile analysis of reaction force did not converge for this slip surface with the given soil displacement. Consider reducing the displacement to improve convergence.

-500

Cannot generate interslice force function.

-600

Non-convergence due to tension.

-700

Surface Altering Optimization failed to converge.

-701

The number of slices is small, possibly causing Surface Altering Optimization to under perform.

-702

Cuckoo Search failed to create an initial set of random slip surfaces.

-703

Particle Swarm Search failed to create an initial set of random slip surfaces.

-704

Simulated Annealing Search failed to create an initial random slip surface.

-900Internal engine error.

-1000

No valid slip surface is generated.

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