LimitState Newsletter Out Now

The first issue of the LimitState newsletter is now out. With a mix of news and features there's something of interest for all users of LimitState software. In this quarter's issue:

Applying LimitState:GEO to slopes: In conventional slope analysis software a global factor of safety is applied to the soil shear strength parameters. However, with the default slope model generated by the LimitState:GEO slope wizard, the adequacy factor is applied to the self weight of the soil itself, which raises some interesting theoretical issues that have repercussions on what you will see in the software...[read more]

Spotlight on material drainage behaviour: In LimitState:GEO the user does not have to separately define two materials of ostensibly the same type – i.e. one that has drained properties and one that has undrained properties. Instead, a single material can be defined that can act either in a drained or undrained manner depending upon how the drainage behaviour is set...[read more]

Including reinforcement in LimitState:RING: Since LimitState:RING 2.0 was launched in 2007, many users have enquired whether it is possible to include reinforcement in the software and now a test version of LimitState:RING (version 2.1 beta) has been developed...[read more]

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