Results

The Results page in the Project Settings dialog allows you to configure some settings related to data output which is saved to the results file.

Slip Surfaces and Factor of Safety

These options allow you to filter the surfaces displayed by the Show All Surfaces option.

• Output only converged surfaces - if this checkbox is selected, only slip surfaces for which the analysis has converged will be output. This only applies to the grid search and auto refine search methods. For Cuckoo search and particle swarm, non-converged surfaces are always discarded. If this checkbox is turned OFF, any non-converged surfaces for the grid search or auto refine search will be displayed with a black outline and no safety factor value. Refer to Summary of Error Codes for details with non-converged solution.
• Surfaces with FS equal or below - this option allows you to output only slip surfaces with a factor of safety less than or equal to a specified value
• Number of surfaces with lowest FS - if this checkbox is selected, then only the specified number of slip surfaces with the lowest factor of safety will be output

Output column data for all generated surfaces

If this option is selected, detailed column data results will be available for all computed slip surfaces (not just the global minimum).

If this option is NOT selected, detailed column data is only available for the Global Minimum Slip Surface. For other surfaces, the slip surface geometry and safety factor is available, but not detailed column data.

The filter options are:

• Surfaces with FS equal or below - this option allows you to save detailed column data only for slip surfaces with a factor of safety less than or equal to a specified value
• Number of surfaces with lowest FS - this option allows you to save detailed column data only for the specified number of lowest safety factor surfaces