Recent Improvements - SOILVISION

Recent improvements to SOILVISION products include:

October 2020:

• Release of SOILVISION CONNECT Edition V10 (SES) Update 4 (v10.04.00.135)
  • For a more detailed list of new features, go to SOILVISION CONNECT Edition V10 Update 4
    
    
• SVSLOPE Blast Disturbance Zone - Technology Preview
  • For mining applications, specify spatially a blast zone and corresponding material strength reduction curve without adding complexity to your 3D model geometry definition.
    
    
• PLAXIS 2D Interoperability - Technology Preview
  
  • Additional SVSLOPE LEM objects added to the existing Geometry Export allowing quicker model setup for performing FEM safety analysis or sharing model geometry for other FEM analysis types.
  • Take sections directly from SVDESIGNER 3D conceptual designs to PLAXIS 2D analysis.
    
    
• SOILVISION Manager Upgrade
  
  • Re-design of the SOILVISION Manager adds more flexibility of project and model organization and material definitions can be shared and linked from other model files or the SVSOILS database.
    

July 2020:

• Release of SOILVISION CONNECT Edition V10 (SES) Update 3 (v10.03.00.92)
  • For a more detailed list of new features, go to SOILVISION CONNECT Edition V10 Update 3
    
    
• SVDESIGNER - 3D Model Volumes from a Series of 2D Cross-Section Profiles
  • SVDESIGNER feature to more automate the workflow to build 3D model volumes from a series of 2D cross-section profiles.
  • Improves on a workflow that previously required parallel profiles and was less automated.
    
    
• Boundary Condition Specification Workflow
  
  • Boundary condition specification and assignment improvements allow shared reusable definitions and quick multi-select assignment across multiple geometric objects.
    
    
• PLAXIS 2D Interoperability - Technology Preview
  
  • Cross-section profile geometry sliced from a conceptual design model in SVDESIGNER can now be sent directly to PLAXIS 2D.
  • This previously required an intermediate step of a transfer to a SOILVISION analysis product (SVSLOPE, SVSOLID, SVFLUX, or SVENVIRO).
    

April 2020:

• Release of SOILVISION CONNECT Edition V10 (SES) Update 2 (v10.02.00.293)
  • For a more detailed list of new features, go to SOILVISION CONNECT Edition V10 Update 2
    
    
• SVDESIGNER / SVFLUX - Water Data Input and Visualization Improvements
  • Additions to improve the building of water surfaces, use of CPT data and other measurement tools, including enhanced display options for professional reports.
  • Calibrate groundwater analysis results against measured data with these enhanced visualization options.
    
    
• Pseudo-3D Consolidation - Technology Preview
  
  • Mine tailings management and planning tools for volume calculations using the pseudo-3D consolidation method.
  • Efficient analysis of large-strain consolidation 3D scenarios.
    
    
• SVSLOPE - 3D Dynamic Seismic Analysis - Technology Preview
  
  • Solve dynamic seismic finite-element models.
  • This functionality adds to other standard seismic methods in SVSLOPE like Pseudo-Static Coefficients, Spectral Pseudo-Static, and Newmark.
    
    

January 2020:

• Release of SOILVISION CONNECT Edition V10 (SES) Update 1 (v10.01.00.329)
  • For a more detailed list of new features, go to SOILVISION CONNECT Edition V10 Update 1
    
• SVDESIGNER - OpenGround Cloud Borehole Import
  • Import into SVDESIGNER and keep updated borehole data from OpenGround Cloud (formerly Keynetix.cloud).
    
    
• PLAXIS 2D Interoperability - Technology Preview
  
  • Transfer SVSLOPE, SVSOLID, SVFLUX, or SVENVIRO model geometry into PLAXIS 2D.
    
    
• SVSLOPE - 2D Dynamic Seismic Input for Slope Stability - Technology Preview
  
  • Solve dynamic seismic finite-element models and use the results in an SVSLOPE 2D limit-equilibrium analysis.
  • This functionality adds to other standard seismic methods in SVSLOPE like Pseudo-Static Coefficients, Spectral Pseudo-Static, and Newmark.

September 2019:

• Release of SOILVISION CONNECT Edition V10 (SES) (v10.00.00.13)
  • Major version update
  • For a more detailed list of new features, go to SOILVISION CONNECT Edition V10
  • Migration of licensing from Hardware Lock licensing to a flexible virtual licensing management system
    
    
• SVDESIGNER - gINT/Generic Borehole Geometry Import
  
  • Import lithology data from a gINT database or from CSV files to build 3D surfaces and volumes
    
    
• SVSLOPE - 3D Probability Analysis and 3D Sensitivity Analysis
  • Probability: Perform probabilistic analysis to report outputs as a probability of unsatisfactory performance or a reliability index
  • Sensitivity: Vary soil properties in 3D analyses
    
    
• SVSLOPE - Automatic critical sliding direction determination
  
  • An addition to Orientation Analysis, this capability automatically finds the orientation of the critical sliding mass, reducing modeling time
    
    
• SVSLOPE - Hybrid Ellipsoid
  
  • Allows further control of the ellipsoidal shape of slip surfaces and thus improved FOS results
    
    
• SVSLOPE - Addition of advanced seismic methods
  • Spectral Pseudo-Static Loading and Newmark methods
    
    
• SVSOILS - gINT Material Import
  • SVSOILS can now import materials from a standard gINT database
    
    
• SVSOILS - 35,000 soils added to SVSOILS database
  
  • GIS-referenced soils from across the United States added to SVSOILS
  • Soils sourced from the Zapata (ASU) database

For a full list of which features are available with Geotechnical SELECT Entitlements (GSE), see this page: Geotechnical SELECT Entitlements (GSE)