Summary of Error Codes

Summary of Error Codes

These error codes are displayed when you are using the Query Invalid Surfaces option, the Filter Surfaces
option, and they are also listed in the Info Viewer analysis summary.

TIP: the most convenient way to view slip surfaces which correspond to error codes, is to use the Filter Surfaces option,
select the Surfaces with Error Code option in the dialog, and select the error code. This will display the surfaces on the model
corresponding to the error code, and may help you to troubleshoot or understand why the error code is occurring.

The meaning of these error codes is summarized below.

ERROR CODE EXPLANATION

-97 Factor of safety is out of valid range set by user.

-98 Circular slip surface is entirely within the tension crack zone.

-99 Slip surface intersects an infinite strength material. If infinite strength materials
are defined for a model, a large number of potential slip surfaces may show this
error code. This is normal.

-100 (This error code not currently in use. Formerly it was a check for both slip surface
/ slope intersections having the same y-coordinate e.g. intersection with a
horizontal surface. However, this screened out valid surfaces in some cases, and
is no longer in use).

-101 Only one (or none) slip surface / slope intersections.

-102 Two slip circle / slope intersections, but resulting arc is actually outside soil region
(i.e. the slip circle is tangent to the slope at two locations).

-103 Two slip surface / slope intersections, but one or more slip surface / nonslope
External Boundary intersections lie between them. This usually occurs when a
slip circle extends past the bottom of the External Boundary, but may also occur
on a benched slope model, when a double set of Slope Limits is being used.

-104 Same as –102, but slip circle / nonslope intersections also exist. These points lie

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outside the arc defined by the two slip circle / slope intersections.

-105 More than two slip surface / slope intersections with no valid slip surface.

-106 Average slice width is less than .0001 * (maximum horizontal extent of soil
region). This can occur if a slip surface only intersects a very small portion of the
slope, or when a nearly vertical slip surface is created. This limitation is imposed
to avoid numerical errors which may result from too many slices, or too small a
slip region.

-107 Total driving moment (Bishop) or total driving force (Janbu) is negative. This will
occur if the wrong failure direction is specified, or if high loads are applied against
the expected slip direction (e.g. distributed, line or anchor loads).

-108 The absolute value of the total driving moment or total driving force is < 0.1. This
is to limit the calculation of extremely high safety factors if the driving force is very
small. (0.1 is an arbitrary number). This most often occurs when a slip surface
intersects a horizontal portion of the slope (driving force or moment can be zero,
or a very small number).

-109 Soiltype for slice base not located. This error should occur only rarely. It may
occur for circular slip surfaces, if a low number of slices is combined with certain
soil geometries, such that the midpoint of a slice base is actually outside the
External Boundary, even though the circular slip surface is wholly within the
External Boundary.

-110 The water table or a piezoline does not span the slip region for a given slip
surface, when Water Surfaces is specified as the method of pore pressure
calculation in Project Settings. If this error occurs, check that the water table or
piezoline(s) span all the appropriate material zones.

-111 Safety factor iteration did not converge within the Maximum Number of Iterations
specified in the Analysis Methods dialog (normal convergence is within 3 or 4
iterations for Bishop / Janbu analysis methods). If this occurs, very low safety
factors, or incorrect material properties may be the cause.

-112 The coefficient ma = cosa(1 + tanatanf / F) < 0.2 for the final iteration of the safety
factor calculation. This screens out some slip surfaces which may not be valid in
the context of the analysis, in particular, deep seated slip surfaces with many high
negative base angle slices in the passive zone.

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NOTE: if you wish to calculate a safety factor for these surfaces, you can clear
the checkbox for the "Check m_alpha < 0.2" option in Project Settings in the
Slide2 Model program, before you run the analysis. See the Analysis Methods
topic for details.

-113 Slip surface intersects the External Boundary outside of user defined Slope
Limits. This only applies if a slip surface does not intersect the slope within user
defined Slope Limits, but does intersect within the default Slope Limits. If a slip
surface does not intersect within the default Slope Limits, then error code –101
will apply.

-114 Slip surface has reverse curvature. This can occur when the slip center of a
circular slip surface is below the upper y-coordinates of the slope. If you wish to
analyze such surfaces, make sure that the Create Tension Crack For Reverse
Curvature Surfaces option is selected in the Surface Options dialog.

-115 Surface is too shallow. Maximum height of any slice is LESS THAN the Minimum
depth value, specified in the Surface Options dialog. This error code will only be
reported if the Minimum Depth option has been enabled in the Surface Options
dialog.

-116 Not enough slices to analyze the surface. This may occur if the number of
intersections of the slip surface with material boundaries, is greater than the
Number of Slices specified in Project Settings. This may occur if you have a
large number of material boundaries and / or a low number of slices. To avoid this
error code, increase the Number of Slices in Project Settings.

-117 Error in Discrete Interpolation of strength parameters. Either the discrete function
was not found or the interpolation did not work.

-118 Surface does not pass through the Search Focus.

-119 Non-circular slip surface is entirely within the tension crack zone.

-120 Tensile effective normal stress on the base of a slice exceeds the tensile strength
of the material. This check is only applied if the Tensile Stress Check option is
selected in Project Settings > Methods > Advanced.

Allowable tensile stress is zero for all strength criteria models, except: Hoek-
Brown, Generalized Hoek-Brown and Shear-Normal strength function. For these
3 models, a tensile strength can exist. See the Analysis Methods topic for more

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information.

-121 Concave failure surface, only convex surfaces have been defined as being
allowed.

-122 Unable to compute undrained shear strength in drawdown stage. Most likely due
to negative base effective stresses.

-123 Surface radius equal or less than internal cutoff of 0.01.

-124 A slice has a width less than minimum acceptable value. You can modify this in
the advanced project settings.

-125 A slice has a weight less than the user defined cutoff. You can modify this in the
advanced project settings.

-126 A slice has a base angle greater than the user defined cutoff. You can modify this
in the advanced project settings.

-127 Surface weight below minimum weight. You can modify this in the Advanced
project settings.

-128 Surface volume below minimum volume. You can modify this in the Advanced
project settings.

-129 Can not compute anisotropic angle along slip surface.

-130 Surface minimum elevation below defined limit. This can be modified in the
Surface Options dialog.

-200 Factor of safety = 0. Possibly due to normal / shear resistance = zero along part
of the slip surface.

-300 Could not find non-vertical slices for the Sarma nonvertical analysis methods.

-301 Unable to compute average strength parameters for the Sarma nonvertical
analysis. Define Cohesion and Phi instead of using the Average Values.

-302 Rapid Drawdown is not supported for the Sarma vertical and nonvertical analysis
methods.

-303 Excess Pore Pressure is not supported for the Sarma vertical and nonvertical

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analysis methods.

-304 Average strength parameters cannot be computed for an Infinite Strength

-305 Ky cannot be calculated for this surface.

-306 The staged pseudostatic seismic method is not supported for the Sarma vertical
and nonvertical analysis methods.

-307 Newmark displacement cannot be calculated for this surface.

-500 Cannot generate interslice force function.

-600 Nonconvergence due to tension.

-700 Surface Altering Optimization failed to converge.

-701 The number of slices is small, possibly causing Surface Altering Optimization to
underperform.

-702 Cuckoo Search failed to create an initial set of random slip surfaces.

-703 Particle Swarm Search failed to create an initial set of random slip surfaces.

-704 Simulated Annealing Search failed to create an initial random slip surface.

-1000 No valid slip surface is generated.

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