Practical Designing of Taining Walls (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Jacob, Arthur

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0365130737 ISBN 13: 9780365130734

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Excerpt from Practical Designing of Taining Walls

Civil engineers possess regarding the theory of earth pressure, and although further considerations are involved in designing revetments for military works than the mere support of earthwork, there is still to be derived from the experiments and re searches of military men information of much value to civil engineers. The sub ject is one that has received the fullest and most able treatment at the hands of mathe maticians, and solutions for every case that could possibly occur in practice are to be found in our text-books. But the mathe matical' investigations of this and many other questions of common occurrence in practice, unquestionably valuable as they are, in determining the principle involved, and establishing final rules applicable to practice, are, it is believed, but rarely re sorted to by practical engineers. Even when such examples have to be dealt with by those sufficiently acquainted with the mathematical mode of proceeding, they are generally solved without hesitation by some empirical rule, derived from experience. Such a method may, and doubtless occa.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0365130737
• ISBN 13: 9780365130734
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 76
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Copytech (UK) Ltd, Trading as Printondemand-worldwide.com; gpsr@podww.com; ; 9 Culley Court; Orton Southgate; Peterborough; Cambridgeshire; PE2 6WA; Vereinigtes Königreich
• Verantwortliche Person: Easy Access System Europe Oü, 16879218; +358405003575; gpsr.requests@easproject.com; ; Mustamäe tee 50; Tallinn; 10621; Estland