Display Effective Stress and Slices: Upon clicking on the DISPLAY menu in Bishop's results, the effective normal stress over the critical circle is displayed. The slices and porewater pressure can be displayed as well. This option can be useful in case tensile stresses tend to develop over the slip surface (quite common in cohesive soil). In such a case, the user may introduce a tensile crack. Hence, a rational tool is provided to determine the depth of the tensile crack that is likely to develop so as to produce only compressive normal stresses.