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SLOPE/W

SLOPE/W is the leading slope stability software for soil and rock slopes. SLOPE/W can
effectively analyze both simple and complex problems for a variety of slip surface shapes,
pore-water pressure conditions, soil properties, and loading conditions.

PORE-WATER PRESSURE

Pore-water pressures can be defined using piezometric lines, spatial functions, or the results
from other GeoStudio finite element analyses. Values can be displayed as contours on the
geometry to reveal PWP values used in the analysis.

RAPID DRAWDOWN

Rapid drawdown analysis can be conducted using the pore-water pressures defined using
piezometric lines, transient finite element GeoStudio analyses, or the multi-stage rapid
drawdown technique.

MATERIAL MODELS

SLOPE/W supports a comprehensive list of material models including Mohr-Coulomb,

undrained, high strength, impenetrable, bilinear, anisotropic strength, SHANSEP, spatial
Mohr-Coulomb and more.

LIMIT STATE DESIGN

Limit state design or load resistance factor design is handled by specifying partial factors on
permanent/variable loads, seismic coefficients, material properties, reinforcement inputs and
more.
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GROUNDWATER FLOW ANALYSIS

SEEP/W is a powerful finite element software product for modeling groundwater flow in
porous media. SEEP/W can model simple saturated steady-state problems or sophisticated
saturated / unsaturated transient analyses with atmospheric coupling at the ground surface.

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS

SEEP/W supports a range of boundary condition options. Field data or user-specified

functional relationships can be inputted to define hydrographs, reservoir fluctuations, rainfall
cycles, vegetation effects, or land-climate interactions.

INTEGRATION

Integration of SEEP/W with SLOPE/W makes it possible to analyze the stability of any
natural or man-made system subject to transient changes in pore-water pressure.

MATERIAL PROPERTIES

Hydraulic conductivity and volumetric water content functions can be estimated using built-
in functions. The estimation process requires only fundamental information. A saturated-only
material model is also available.

SATURATED/UNSATURATED

The rigorous saturated/unsaturated formulation of SEEP/W means that even the most
demanding flow problems, such as infiltration into dry soil or seepage through complex
upstream tailings dams, can be analyzed with ease.
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STRESS AND DEFORMATION ANALYSIS

SIGMA/W is a powerful finite element software product for modeling stress and deformation
in earth and structural materials. SIGMA/W analyses may range from simple linear elastic
simulations to soil-structure interaction problems with nonlinear material models.

CONSTRUCTION SEQUENCE

GeoStudio's Analysis Tree models even the most complex construction sequences. Analyses
are added to the Tree, forming a Parent-Child relationship in which each new analysis
represents a part of the construction sequence.  

COUPLED CONSOLIDATION

The coupled stress and pore-water pressure formulation can be used to model construction
sequencing involving fill placement, excavation, and soil-structure interaction. 

SLOPE/W

INTEGRATION

The stresses and/or pore-water pressures from a SIGMA/W analysis can be used directly in
SLOPE/W to do a stress-based stability analysis. 

STRESS REDISTRIBUTION

Stress redistribution analysis is used to conduct a strength reduction slope stability analysis,
model stress transfer onto structures such as pile walls installed within failed slopes, or
calculate permanent deformations.
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DYNAMIC STRESS ANALYSIS

QUAKE/W models dynamic stresses arising from earthquake shaking or dynamic point

forces from a blast or sudden impact. QUAKE/W simulates the impact of these stresses on
earth structures.  

EARTHQUAKE RECORDS

Earthquake time history records can be imported and scaled for a dynamic analysis.
Modify the peak acceleration and duration to ensure the values used in the QUAKE/W
analysis represent site-specific conditions.
 

NEWMARK ANALYSES

The QUAKE/W computed dynamic forces can be used in SLOPE/W to compute yield
accelerations and potential permanent deformations for each trial slip surface. 

EXCESS PORE PRESSURE

Excess pore-pressures computed by QUAKE/W together with the initial static pore-pressures
can be used in SLOPE/W to examine the effect of the elevated pore-pressures on stability

TEMP/W

HEAT TRANSFER ANALYSIS

TEMP/W is a powerful finite element software product for modeling heat transfer and phase
change in porous media. TEMP/W can analyze simple conduction problems to complex
surface energy simulations with cyclical freeze-thaw.
CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY

The convective heat transfer boundary condition simulates artificial ground freezing or other
processes involving the flow of fluid over or within a bounding surface.
 

FORCED CONVECTION

Heat transfer is often governed by forced convection in natural hydrogeological systems.

TEMP/W can be fully-integrated with SEEP/W or AIR/W to analyze heat transfer via
groundwater flow or air flow, respectively.
 

LAND CLIMATE INTERACTION

Analyze problems that involve a coupling between climatic conditions and the thermal
response within the ground in TEMP/W using the surface energy balance boundary
condition.

MODEL THERMOSYPHONS

TEMP/W implements a rigorous thermosyphon boundary condition that can accommodate

either two-dimensional or pseudo-3D analysis of thermosyphons.

CTRAN/W

SOLUTE AND GAS TRANSFER ANALYSIS

CTRAN/W is a powerful finite element software product for modeling solute and gas transfer
in porous media. CTRAN/W can be used to model simple diffusion-dominated systems
through to complex advection-dispersion systems with first-order reactions.
COMPREHENSIVE FORMULATION

CTRAN/W offers the capability to model a diverse set of solute and gas transport
mechanisms including diffusion, advection, dispersion, adsorption, decay, and density-
dependent flow due to its comprehensive formulation.

DUAL PHASE GAS TRANSFER

CTRAN/W models gas transfer in both the gaseous and aqueous phases. A bulk diffusion
coefficient, longitudinal dispersivity, and transverse dispersivity are defined for each phase.

SATURATED AND UNSATURATED

CTRAN/W is formulated for saturated and unsaturated transport, allowing the coefficient of
diffusion to vary with water content and the advection process to adjust as groundwater
velocities change in the unsaturated zone.

SORPTION AND KINETIC REACTIONS

CTRAN/W can model equilibrium sorption and first-order reactions such as radioactive
decay, biodegradation, and hydrolysis.

AIR/W

AIR TRANSFER ANALYSIS

AIR/W is a powerful finite element software product for modeling air transfer in mine waste
and other porous media. AIR/W can be used to model a range of scenarios, from simple
single phase air transfer problems to complex coupled air-water systems.
DENSITY DEPENDENT AIR FLOW

AIR/W can be integrated with TEMP/W to model air transfer via free convection. Density-
driven air transfer is often a dominant mechanism in systems subjected to seasonal ground
temperature variations.
 

ESTIMATE MATERIAL PROPERTIES

The air conductivity function can be generated based on the dry-soil air conductivity, a user-
selected volumetric water content function, and basic soil properties, such as soil
classification or grain size distribution.   
 

FORCED-CONVECTION HEAT TRANSFER

Combine AIR/W with TEMP/W to model forced-convection heat transfer. This process often
governs the thermal regime in coarse-grain materials such as waste rock piles, rip-rap, and
layered embankments.

SINGLE OR DUAL PHASE FLOW

Air transfer analyses can be conducted using a single phase material model that only
considers pressure and gravity-driven air flow. Alternatively, a dual phase material model can
be used by coupling air flow and water transfer.