Smart questions
Smart answers
Smart people
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Member Login
Remember Me
Forgot Password?
Join Us!

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips now!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
Join Eng-Tips
*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

LINK TO THIS FORUM!

Add Stickiness To Your Site By Linking To This Professionally Managed Technical Forum.
Just copy and paste the
code below into your site.

Eng-Tips LinkedIn® Group

Partner With Us!

"Best Of Breed" Forums Add Stickiness To Your Site
Partner Button
(Download This Button Today!)

Feedback

"...thank you for the wonderful resource that you have enabled here. It is clear, concise, well maintained and most importantly, helpful..."
More...

Geography

Where in the world do Eng-Tips members come from?
Click Here To Find Out!

Eng-Tips Shirts!

Get Eng-Tips Swag
Get your
Eng-Tips Forums
SWAG here!
Home > Forums > Geotechnical Engineers > Activities > Slope stability engineering Forum

Slope Stability Software

thread260-321491
Read More Threads Like This One
RFreund (Structural)
6 May 12 18:59
Any suggestions for a slope stability software that would be used primarily for checking global stability of geosynthetic reinforced retaining walls. Preferably something that is easy to use/user friendly. I have used GSlope which seems to be a fairly user friendly program. Seemed slightly dated (atleast the version I used).

Thanks in advance!

EIT
www.HowToEngineer.com

FixedEarth (Geotechnical)
27 May 12 22:59
For the features it has and its cost, I like the GEO5 slope program by Fine software.
RFreund (Structural)
29 May 12 7:58
FixedEarth - Have you used GSlope http://www.mitresoftware.com/prod01.htm or Reesa http://www.reslope.com/ressaindex.htm ?

EIT
www.HowToEngineer.com

FixedEarth (Geotechnical)
29 May 12 11:36
No, I have not tried either software (No Demo's).

I am also on the market for a slope stability software. With the GEO5, I am able to evaluate their capability with a DEMO. It can do tiebacks, geogrids and strip loads on terraced slopes, so I am leading towards it. However, I probably would delay the purchase until I have a slope stability project that would pay for it. It is also under $1k.
RFreund (Structural)
29 May 12 12:57
FixedEarth - Good to know, thank you. We seem to be in a similar situation.

EIT
www.HowToEngineer.com

JML4TCM (Civil/Environmental)
26 Jun 12 17:33
ReSSA and MSEW by ADAMA Engineering.

www.geoprograms.com
GeoPaveTraffic (Geotechnical)
28 Jun 12 10:13
I prefer UTEXAS4 available from Shinok software. It may not be as user friendly as some of the others, but I prefer the detailed output information and input method.

This may sound counter intuitive, but I believe that modeling software shouldn't be too easy to use. Otherwise people start using it without enough thought. This leads to the age old problem of garbage in and garbage out.

I believe that global stability should be performed by an experienced geotechnical engineer. Input parameters (soil, water, weights, etc.) for slope stability are not easy to determine and are influced by many variables.

Mike Lambert

Read More Threads Like This One

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!

Back To Forum

Back To Slope stability engineering

Close Box

Join Eng-Tips® Today!

Join your peers on the Internet's largest technical engineering professional community.
It's easy to join and it's free.

Here's Why Members Love Eng-Tips Forums:

Register now while it's still free!

Already a member? Close this window and log in.

Join Us             Close