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Extreme care must be taken to avoid the adoption of unduly high shear strength parameters derived from back-analysis which may have incorporated the effect of suction. Where the ground mass is relatively homogeneous with no corestones or boulders, binding effect of tree roots, three-dimensional effects of slope geometry, etc., back-analysed shear strenght parameters which are higher than the ones determined from laboratory tests on saturated specimens should not be used