Description: This book offers a comprehensive guide to the design and construction of retaining walls, structures essential for holding back earth and water. The author delves into the historical context of retaining walls, tracing their evolution from simple vertical forms to more complex designs incorporating buttresses, counterforts, and arches. The book goes beyond simple construction techniques to explore the theoretical principles governing stability, examining the forces at play and the potential modes of failure. The author meticulously analyzes the distribution of pressure on a wall's bed-joints, demonstrating how different types of joints, whether cemented or uncemented, impact the stability of the structure. The book also investigates the critical concept of earth pressure, exploring how the angle of repose of the earth and the weight of the wall combine to influence the overall stability of the retaining wall. By examining the forces at work and the interplay of factors like weight, friction, and pressure, this book provides a rigorous understanding of the principles that underpin the design of these essential structures. Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. This text has been digitally restored from a historical edition. Some aesthetic errors may persist, however it has been deemed that any such will not detract from the work's significant historical value. The digital edition of all books may be viewed on our website before purchase.
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Original Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: America
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Intended Audience: Adults
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Book Title: Retaining Walls : in Theory and Practice, a Text-Book for Students (Classic Reprint)
Number of Pages: 174 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 0.4 in
Topic: General, Methods & Materials
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Architecture, Technology & Engineering
Item Weight: 8.5 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: T. E. Coleman
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
