The widely accepted and computationally powerful stability analysis package, SB-Slope has very limited functions for data and geometry modification. The procedure outputs the data files in the SB-Slope data format, thus providing powerful interface for geometry editing. The meaning of all data parameters remains the same as in conventional SB-Slope.
The user is prompted with a single dialog defining the majority of necessary parameters, followed by prompts for soil and water polylines, soil properties and finally the parameters of applied loads if any. For each soil type, the program prompts first to pick polylines which denote upper boundary of the soil (multiple polylines may be selected), and then to pick polylines which represent boundary of the soil and are phreatic lines.
Polylines from the second set may appear in the first set as well.
After all soil polylines, the free-water surface is entered if any and then user is prompted for the soil mechanical properties. At last, distributed loads are entered by picking a horizontal line, representing the load support area, and input of the load value.
Pulldown Menu Location: Surface > Slope Stability
Keyboard Command: sbslope