Index: dam clients/DamUI/trunk/src/Dam/Data/DamEngineIo/ConversionHelper.cs
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diff -u -r582 -r615
--- dam clients/DamUI/trunk/src/Dam/Data/DamEngineIo/ConversionHelper.cs	(.../ConversionHelper.cs)	(revision 582)
+++ dam clients/DamUI/trunk/src/Dam/Data/DamEngineIo/ConversionHelper.cs	(.../ConversionHelper.cs)	(revision 615)
@@ -326,6 +326,10 @@
             return translationTable[soilGeometryType];
         }
 
+        public const int InputFailureMechanismStabilityInside = 0;
+        public const int InputFailureMechanismStabilityOutside = 1;
+        public const int InputFailureMechanismPiping = 2;
+        public const int InputFailureMechanismHorizontalBalance = 3;
         /// <summary>
         /// Converts the Dam failure mechanism type to the input failure mechanism type .
         /// </summary>
@@ -335,10 +339,10 @@
         {
             var translationTable = new Dictionary<FailureMechanismSystemType, int>()
                                                {
-                                                   {FailureMechanismSystemType.StabilityInside, 0},
-                                                   {FailureMechanismSystemType.StabilityOutside, 1},
-                                                   {FailureMechanismSystemType.Piping, 2},
-                                                   {FailureMechanismSystemType.HorizontalBalance, 3}
+                                                   {FailureMechanismSystemType.StabilityInside, InputFailureMechanismStabilityInside},
+                                                   {FailureMechanismSystemType.StabilityOutside, InputFailureMechanismStabilityOutside},
+                                                   {FailureMechanismSystemType.Piping, InputFailureMechanismPiping},
+                                                   {FailureMechanismSystemType.HorizontalBalance, InputFailureMechanismHorizontalBalance}
                                                };
             return translationTable[segmentFailureMechanismType];
         }
@@ -352,10 +356,10 @@
         {
             var translationTable = new Dictionary<int, FailureMechanismSystemType>()
                                                {
-                                                   {0, FailureMechanismSystemType.StabilityInside},
-                                                   {1, FailureMechanismSystemType.StabilityOutside},
-                                                   {2, FailureMechanismSystemType.Piping},
-                                                   {3, FailureMechanismSystemType.HorizontalBalance}
+                                                   {InputFailureMechanismStabilityInside, FailureMechanismSystemType.StabilityInside},
+                                                   {InputFailureMechanismStabilityOutside, FailureMechanismSystemType.StabilityOutside},
+                                                   {InputFailureMechanismPiping, FailureMechanismSystemType.Piping},
+                                                   {InputFailureMechanismHorizontalBalance, FailureMechanismSystemType.HorizontalBalance}
                                                };
             return translationTable[failureMechanismSystemType];
         }