Bentley Systems, Incorporated software

SVSLOPE represents the new standard in 2D/3D slope stability analysis. Users can perform classic limit equilibrium slope analysis of soil or rock slopes by the method of slices or newer stress-based methods. Comprehensive 2D slip surface searching and pore-water pressure conditions and innovative 3D spatial analysis allow modeling at new levels.

SVDESIGNER is a user-friendly 3D conceptual model builder used to significantly reduce model creation times by visualizing, optimizing, and merging engineering-staged construction/design, topology, borehole, piezometer/field instrumentation geotechnical data into a well-defined conceptual model for subsequent numerical modeling.

SVFLUX is finite element software that allows modeling of groundwater seepage in unsaturated or saturated soils and rock. Offered as a comprehensive 1D, 2D, and 3D program for calculating steady-state and transient-state flow as well as evaporation from the ground surface. This feature is a leading option for geotechnical and hydrogeological analysis. This application is used for solutions involving calculation of pore-water pressures for slope stability, tailings dams, earth dams, reservoirs, unsaturated cover systems, and groundwater flow in embankments.

SVSOLID is a 1D, 2D, and 3D finite-element program for the calculation of deformations in geotechnical earth structures. The software can solve both simple and complex staged construction and/or excavation problems involving elasto-plastic soft-soil behavior and small and large-strain time-dependent consolidation as well as the deformation of rock materials.

SVSOILS is the world’s premier product for estimating the hydraulic properties for flow modeling in unsaturated soils. Our database contains data on more than 6,200 soil-water characteristic curves and provides numerous theoretical methods of estimating the soil-water characteristic curve (SWCC) or unsaturated hydraulic conductivity curve. Methods for managing shear strength, triaxial, thermal, and fate and transport properties are also present.

SVENVIRO offers geo-environmental analysis applications. The set is well-suited for solving complex flow and contaminant transport models, coupled flow and freeze/thaw analysis, and coupled flow, thermal, and pore-air flow models. The freeze/thaw analysis includes a comprehensive climatic interface. The set uses the power of the FlexPDE finite element solution engine. FlexPDE provides the benefits of a general finite element solver, fully automatic mesh generation and mesh refinement in 1D, 2D, and 3D models.