Slip Surface Overview
Slip surfaces are the 3-dimensional failure surfaces for which the safety factor is calculated during a Slide3 slope stability analysis. Automated search methods can be used to search for the critical slip surfaces, or user-defined surfaces can be defined.
- Grid Search Settings
- Wedge Settings
- Add User-Defined Slip Surface
- Add Search Plane
- Add Search Limit
- Import Search Limits
The search limits options allow you to define inclusion or exclusion zones on the model to narrow the search area.