Transient Groundwater transient groundwater analysis compute safety factor at each stage time dependent boundary conditions view groundwater and stability results at each stage Rapid Drawdown Duncan, Wright, Wong 3 stage Army Corps Engineering 2 stage Lowe-Karafiath improved B-bar method Material Properties Generalized Anisotropic Strength phi b for water pressure grids water content versus suction for transient analysis direct link from material properties dialog to RocData or RocLab to assist with input of material parameters paste data from RocData or RocLab into material properties dialog for the simple permeability model can now choose a function based on soil type (Define Hydraulic Properties) Search Methods simulated annealing (Surface Options > Non-Circular > Search Method) auto refine search for non-circular (Surface Options > Non-Circular > Search Method) multiple group option for block search to simultaneously search multiple regions (Surface Options > Non-Circular > Block Search) define maximum concave angle for optimization search (Surface Options > Non-Circular > Optimize) Project Settings changes and improvements to dialog (e.g. tabs replaced by list) units of measurement (permeability units and time) Eurocode 7 design standard project summary Editing Change Slope Angle option Geometry Cleanup option Copy, Scale, Rotate boundaries Convert Boundary option Coordinate table for entering / editing coordinates (Boundaries > Edit) coordinate entry mode for entering relative or polar coordinates in prompt line improved options for defining arcs and circle transient groundwater mode for defining transient conditions tabs at lower left of view for switching modes (slope stability, steady state groundwater, transient groundwater) Support consider shear capacity and/or compression capacity for grouted tiebacks or soil nails (Define Support Properties) micro pile force direction - apply parallel to slip surface or perpendicular to pile (Define Support Properties) apply support forces to interslice boundaries (Project Settings > Advanced) Analysis new compressed file format *.slim file extension user-defined iteration parameters for limit equilibrium analysis (Project Settings > Advanced) Steffensen's iteration method improves speed and convergence (Project Settings > Advanced) exclude surfaces from output file if safety factor above or below user-defined values (Project Settings > Advanced) improved Info Viewer with customizable output for report generation Groundwater multi-segment discharge sections for finite element groundwater analysis pressure head boundary condition for finite element groundwater analysis negative pore pressure cutoff for transient analysis when initial conditions are defined by water table or grid Meshing Improve Discretization Grading option in Mesh Setup to improve discretization around very small line segments Advanced Discretization option in Mesh Setup allows you to refine discretization in selected regions new mesh refinement options - increase element / discretization density regions can be defined as arbitrary polygons (Mesh > Increase Density) automatic mapped mesh option Interpret show values along surface (plot histograms of results directly on slip surface) multi-stage results view for transient groundwater analysis plot safety factor versus stage for transient save current view state of open files (saves all open views and display options for each view) more customizable chart settings slice data output is tabulated for easier reading Drawing Tools drawing tools available in Slide modeler convert tool to boundary option in modeler material properties and support properties tables queries, iso-lines and flow lines are saved when you save the drawing tools tools can now be hidden individually or all tool visibility is adjustable per view and per stage (for transient analysis) tool formatting can be copied from one tool to another undo/redo applies to drawing tools