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Geotechnical News • March 2016
GEO-INTEREST
Public Release of SVOFFICE™5/GE – GeoEngineering Software Suite
Introducing SVOFFICE™5/GE. This
release has been in development for
seven years and builds on the suc-
cess of our previous SVOffice™2009
product and provides the power of
the FlexPDE® finite element solu-
tion engine to produce 1D, 2D, and
3D models. The suite offers a geo-
technical and a geoenvironmental
application focus and is well suited for
solving complex flow and contaminant
transport models.
The SVSLOPE® slope stability
analysis package has been improved
and can now create 3D models of
increased complexity…due in part to
the addition of SVDESIGNER™ to
the SVOFFICE™5/GE suite. SVDE-
SIGNER™ is a new 3D conceptual
modeling and visualization software
package that is tightly integrated
within the GE suite and allows for
rapid prototyping of complex 3D
geometry and geotechnical designs.
Volumes can be calculated or high-
quality representations of staged
geotechnical construction/excavation
activities can be produced. Geometry
output is used to produce 2D and 3D
models within your SVOFFICE™5/
GE projects taking multi-dimensional
modeling and visualization to a whole
new level.
The entire suite of SVOFFICE™5/GE
modules also take full advantage of
a new and improved graphics engine
that provides faster representation and
viewing of complex 3D models.
Further enhancements include the
new SVSOILS™ package. For-
merly known as SoilVision®…
SVSOILS™ contains data on over
6,200 soil-water characteristic curves
and provides numerous theoretical
methods of estimating the soil-water
characteristic curve (SWCC) or the
unsaturated hydraulic conductivity
curve. It is fully integrated with the
SVOFFICE™5/GE product suite
and features an entirely new charting
engine and a simplified user interface
that significantly speeds up workflow
while still supporting the features that
made its predecessor so popular.
SVFLUX™GE is designed to model
groundwater seepage in unsatu-
rated or saturated soils and rock. It
is offered as a comprehensive 1D,
2D and 3D finite-element program
for calculating steady-state and
transient-state groundwater flow. The
package includes powerful features
such as automatic mesh refinement,
climatic coupling and calculation of
actual evaporation from the ground
surface. When fully coupled with
SVHEAT™GE, it is the world’s
premier package for analysis of earth
covers.
SVHEAT™GE is designed for the
calculation of conductive and con-
vective heat movement in frozen or
unfrozen soils. It has the ability to
handle building foundations, pipelines,
or thermosyphons and the input of
detailed climate weather station data
to calculate the influence of atmo-
spheric conditions. The impact of
climatic conditions can be determined
through an advanced snow boundary
condition.
SVCHEM™GE is able to model
contaminant transport through the
saturated and unsaturated soil and
rock zones. Simple particle tracking
may be performed as well as modeling
the processes of advection, diffusion,
adsorption, decay and density depen-
dencies. SVCHEM™GE is also able
to refine the solution mesh based on
any problem variable. SVCHEM™GE
is applicable to geotechnical, geoenvi-
ronmental, mining and hydrogeologi-
cal-related projects.
Full coupling of SVFLUX™GE and
SVCHEM™GE can perform advec-
tive analysis. The automatic mesh
refinement is particularly useful for
accurate solution of models with a
moving contaminant front.
SVAIR™GE can be used to model
dissipation of pore-air pressures and
vapor infiltration in unsaturated soils.
Saturation levels may be imported
from SVFLUX™GE. Simple steady-
state as well as transient-state models
can be created. SVAIR™GE can be
applied to geotechnical, civil, hydro-
logical, and mining engineering
projects.
The following key features and
enhancements are noted:
• NEW SVDESIGNER™ 3D
Conceptual Modeler
• New SVSOILS™ Database
• New High-Performance Graphics
Engine
• New SVOFFICE™5 Manager
• Advanced Model Coupling
• Exclusive Advanced 3D Multi-Di-
rectional Slope Stability Analysis
• Automatic Mesh Generation and
Refinement
• Comprehensive Probabilistic
Analysis in SVSLOPE® and
SVFLUX™
• Spatially Varying Material
Properties in SVSLOPE® and
SVFLUX™
• World Class Support
We invite you to take SVOFFICE™5/
GE for a test drive. Contact us through
our website at
SVOFFICE, SVSOILS, SVDE-
SIGNER, SVFLUX, SVAIR,
SVCHEM, SVHEAT are trademarks
of SoilVision Systems Ltd. SVSLOPE,
SoilVision are registered trademarks
of SoilVision Systems Ltd.
FlexPDE is a registered trademark of
PDE Solutions Inc.
SoilVision Systems Ltd. is a soft-
ware development and geotechnical
engineering consulting firm and was
formed in 1997 to software tools to
meet the needs of geo-professionals
modeling the behavior of complex
saturated and unsaturated soil systems.
