Introduction

QSIM is concerned with the analysis of slope stability in dynamic conditions using Newmark’s method.

Newmark’s method models a landslide as a rigid block sliding on an inclined plane; movement occurs when horizontal acceleration exceeds the critical value kc that is calculated by a pseudo static analysis.When acceleration falls below this value motion proceeds with null acceleration.

Qsim allows to obtain the trend displacements and velocities during the earthquake and the maximum displacement as well as generate design artificial accelerograms. Other features:

See also Accelerogram generation