Practical designing of retaining walls, by Arthur Jacob... - Softcover

Michigan Historical Reprint Series

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1425501087 ISBN 13: 9781425501082

Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 2005

Synopsis

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 subject is one that has received the fullest and most able treatment at the hands of mathematicians, and solutions for every case that could possibly occur in practice are to be found in our text-books. But the mathematical 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...

Edition details

• Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1425501087
• ISBN 13: 9781425501082
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64