Documentation and Theory Overview

Slide2 is a 2D limit equilibrium slope stability program for evaluating the safety factor or probability of failure, of circular or non-circular failure surfaces in soil or rock slopes. Slide2 analyzes the stability of slip surfaces using vertical slice or non-vertical slice limit equilibrium methods. Slide2 also includes finite element groundwater seepage analysis built right into the program, for both steady state and transient conditions.

Getting Started

If you are a new user of Slide2, you should begin by completing the Slide2 Quick Start tutorial to help familiarize yourself with the software’s main functions.

How to Use this Guide

Documentation

The Documentation tab helps you to get familiar with program features and provides details on specific tools/functions of the software. This section includes topics like terminology, general features, input data, analysis methods, viewing and display options, and more.

Begin with the Slide2 Overview page for an overview of the program and analysis assumptions.

Tutorials

The tutorials tab provides easy to follow, step-by-step instructions demonstrating how to use various features of the program and provide guidance for more specific analysis features of Slide2. It is recommended that you go through as many of the tutorials as possible to get acquainted with the many different capabilities of the software.

Begin with the Quick Start Tutorial for an introduction to basic modelling and data interpretation features

Verification and Theory

The Theory and Verification tab contains a collection of Theory and Verification Manuals for the software. The Verification Examples represent an extensive set of models, from many different sources, which have been used to verify the accuracy of the solutions computed by the program. The Theory Manuals describes the equations used to calculate the factor of safety as well as the theories behind the failure mechanisms of each analysis method.