22-01-2020 Slide3: Importing Monitoring Data to Slide3 (IDS GeoRadar)

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1. Introduction

This tutorial will demonstrate how to view IDS Radar Data and will provide an example
where the imported IDS Radar Data can be used to validate the results of Slide3.

2. Open Slide3 Model

Select File > Recent > Tutorials and read in the file IDS - Starting File from the
installation folder.

3. Results

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Select the Results tab to view the failure surface on the model.

Turn on the contours by selecting the Show Contours option on the toolbar. The
model should look as follows with the Janbu safety factor close to 1.00.

4. Import IDS Radar Data

Select: Interpret > Import IDS Radar Data and click on the file
Bagdad_Displacement Map Twentieth_from_12_Nov_05-05_34_to_12_Nov_06-

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05_35 from the installation folder.

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Notice that the imported surface matches the surface of the model. Press OK to import
the data set.

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Notice that despite importing the whole data set, we are only truly interested in the
small hot region of the contours. In this case this is region with the most negative
displacement. We can apply a filter to remove the points with the small displacements
from the set.

Select to import IDS data again and hit OK for the warning about removing the old set.
In the filter value group in the top right, drag the right slider until the surface is reduced
to only points with significant displacement.

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Select OK and the surface will be imported.

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Note that if you wish to change the appearance of the imported surface, there are
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variety of options available in the bottom left Properties pane when you select the
imported surface (last item) from the Visibility pane.

It is already clear that there is significant overlap between the greatest displacements
measured and the failure surface predicted by Slide3. Offset the failure surface slightly
to more clearly see this overlap.

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Notice how closely the Hot sections of the imported surface match the results from
Slide3. This shows a very close match between the predicted surface from Slide3 and
measured results.

This concludes the Import Monitoring Data to Slide3 (IDS GeoRadar) tutorial.

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