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TSLOPE's version of the Morgenstern and Price method is actually just an extension of Spencer's Method to allow side forces that are not necessarily parallel. The side forces on a typical slice and the force polygon are shown in Figure 5.

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Morgenstern & Price

TSLOPE's version of the Morgenstern and Price method is actually just an extension of Spencer's Method to allow side forces that are not necessarily parallel. The side forces on a typical slice and the force polygon are shown in Figure 5.

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Morgenstern and Price's Method


Morgenstern and Price's Method as originally formulated took a somewhat different approach to the solution of complete slice equilibrium (Morgenstern and Price, 1965). While Spencer considered overall moment equilibrium, Morgenstern and Price have considered only the moment equations of individual slices. Each method satisfies all conditions of equilibrium but Spencer's Method requires about half the computer time. For this reason TSLOPE's version of the Morgenstern and Price Method is actually just an extension of Spencer's Method to allow side forces that are not necessarily parallel (Spencer, 1973). Morgenstern and Price assume that the ratio of the side forces is given by:

(15) where f(x) represents a user-defined variational relationship between X and E. The parameter is an unknown scaling factor determined by the program to yield complete equilibrium. Spencer's Method assumes that the side forces are inclined at angle respect to horizontal: with

(16) The angle is determined in the calculation process. To extend Spencer's Method to allow non-parallel side forces we let:

(17) where f(x) is as defined previously. Note that f(x) = 1 is equivalent to Spencer's method. The angle of each side force becomes:

(18) The forces on a typical slice and the force polygon are shown in Figure 5. The side forces are calculated using:

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Morgenstern & Price

(19)

where Q is calculated using Equation 10 in which

is replaced by

. The are varied

horizontal force and moment imbalance are calculated and F and until the imbalances are within acceptable limits.

Figure 5 Force polygon for Morgenstern and Price Method.


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