XSLOPE(Student Version) computes the stability of an earth slope using Bishop's (1955) simplified method for circular failure surfaces or Morgenstern and Price's (1965, 1967) analysis for non-circular failure surfaces. The algorithm used by XSLOPE provides a very good estimate of the location of the critical center for a wide variety of problems. This initial estimate can then be used to size and locate a rectangular grid of circle centers.
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