Which software used in Designing of small earthfill Dams?

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Md. Mahmud Sazzad

Dear Afnan Ahmed,

Any FEM based software is Ok for designing of Earth fill dam. Anyway, I will suggest you to use GEO5 software. It is free. The web site is: http://www.finesoftware.eu/geotechnical-software/

Hope, this will help.

Amarnath Hegde

For quick analysis, you can use Rock-science software "SLIDE" . Which is limit equilibrium based software.

Afnan Ahmad

Thanks Md. Mahmud Sazzad, Amarnath Hegde and Wentao Feng for your answer.

let me try it the FEM based software.

José Luis Quintana

Dear Afnan,

If you are looking for a free or trial version, you could go for GeoStudio or Slide (from Rockscience), but if you want a more advanced software, you must go for a FEM of DEM software, such as Plaxis or Flac. Both of them are useful but the second is a little bit more complicated and I am not sure that them provide trial versions.

Any case, the trial versions have restrictions which could interfer, waste away or mislead your aproaches.

Best regards.

Sareesh Chandrawanshi

Geostudio is the easiest to learn and start with. There are many modules and they work in tandem for providing complete solution. Here is s link to help you. https://www.geo-slope.com/solutions/dams-and-levees

Geoff Wilson

The clue is in the question: it says SMALL dams, so any basic seepage and slope stability software should be adequate, such as those already suggested, i.e. Geostudio. You do not mention the dam abutments as an issue, but for most small dams there are not normally any major concerns.

Thanks to all for your useful answers.

I have installed the Geostudio software and started work on slope stability, after that i will go toward seepage.

Once again thanks.