An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth (1888)
Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863, Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894 · London Longmans, Green · leaf 434
, we must first find the area of thetrapezium BEUF (/(/. 61 2.),which will be found 195^;multiplying this by \% to re-duce the retaining wall andthe material to the same spe-cific gravity, we have l(9y^.This mass being supposed toslide upon the inclined planeED, its effort parallel to that plane… … = sh — x; m =pb % —^ come, substituting the values ?i«fil7^0 = -9^- and 2m = 59-04. 95-76 X 6-93 = -^ becomes ^r, ad ^ ft>7nx4-7(i8-40xl7-Su 3-1, and n^ „ 961. Substituting these values in the formula x= \^2!n + w^ —n, we have x= ^59-04 + 9-61— 3-1 =5-2, a result very confirmatory of the…
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