Ebook Retaining Walls

Introduction — General principles of design — Difierent forms of retaining walls — Arrangement of earth filling behind embank ment walls — Limiting slope of battered face — Walls with but tresses and counterforts — Vaulted retaining walls — Buttressed horizontal arched walls — Land ties — Vaulted revetment walls Surcharged retaining walls — Natural slope of earths — Simple formulae and rules for computing the thickness of walls for retaining earth or water.