The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 105
t the power of water to overturn a clam is as the cube of itsdepth. The value of s will depend on the nature of the puddle usedin the dam, and the proportion it bears to the quantity of timber andiron in the width d. In the examples to this and the following jiro-blems, « is supposed to be equal to… … Example 1.—Find the width of a cofier-dam sufficient to resist thepressure of 17 feet of water on the outside, the height of the dambeing 19 feet. Here we have d=^ /l^- K /i!5M.^ -^ /lilil^=V116-4=10-8feet.-V 3 6s~V 3X 19X90-V 5130 /125-—r=ll-Gfeet. Ifwe suppose from want of proper precaution the…
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