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The Bishop’s method gives a safety factor of circular slip surfaces in excellent agreement with those given by the reliable bi-dimensional slices analysis methods such as Spencer, Janbu or Morgenstern and Price methods. However, several significant disturbing factors are not considered by the simplified or rigorous Bishop’s method on which depends a lot of commercial computer programs. This paper...