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Upper Face
Failure Plane Properties
Failure Plane
Failure Shear Strength
Tension Crack
Forces
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Water Pressure
Water Pressure Overview
Ponded Water Pressure
Plane Water Pressure
Seismic Force
External Force
Support
Support Overview
Spot Bolts
Add Spot Bolt
Delete Spot Bolt
Edit Spot Bolt
Bolt Properties
Bolt Properties Overview
Mechanically Anchored
Grouted Dowel
Cable Bolt
Split Set / Swellex
Simple Bolt Force
User Defined
Bolt Shear Strength
Bolt Orientation Efficiency
Pressure
Bolt Theory
How Bolts are Implemented
Bolt Support Force
Bolt Force Diagrams
Bolt Failure Modes
Deterministic Analysis
Probabilistic Analysis
Probabilistic Analysis Overview
Random Variables
Joint Properties
Joint Shear Strength
Correlation Coefficient
Bolt Properties
Bolt Properties in a Probabilistic Analysis
Bench Design
Bench Design Overview
Bench Design Results
Spill Width
Joint Persistence Analysis
Statistical Distributions
Statistical Distributions Overview
Normal Distribution
Uniform Distribution
Triangular Distribution
Beta Distribution
Exponential Distribution
Lognormal Distribution
Gamma Distribution
Analysis Results
Probability of Failure
Reliability Index
Mean Wedge
Histogram Plot
Data Types
Safety Factor Histogram
Cumulative Plot
Scatter Plot
Picked Wedges
Export Dataset
Charting Options
3D Histogram
Best Fit Distribution
Chart Properties
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Failed/Invalid Wedges
Input Distribution
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Plot in Excel
Regression Line
Relative Frequency
Sampler
Zoom and Pan
Sensitivity Analysis
Compute
Compute
Running the Analysis
Geometry Validation
Re-Running a Probabilistic Analysis
Wedge Size
Wedge Size Overview
Scale Wedge
Viewing and Display Options
3D Wedge View
2D Wedge View
Rotating the Model
Moving the Wedge
Resizing the Views
Resetting the View
Zoom and Pan
Display Options
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Grayscale
Axes Display
Active View
Coordinates
Analysis Results
Wedge Information
Automation
Overview of Automation
Batch Compute
Automate from Excel
Overview of Automate from Excel
Automate from Excel: Deterministic Analysis
Automate from Excel: Probabilistic Analysis
Why Automation Is Useful
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