Adams, Henry · London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 154
ency to slipwas in the shape of a semicircle, withthe diameter vertical at back of wall,and his arguments resulted in twotriangles of pressure of the propor-tions shown by the dotted lines inFig. 431, giving the total pressure of0-bW2imh^ acting at a height of 0-29fi3A from bottom, or say f^ths,… … TsTTfrn r/g 4S/ 140 THE MECHANICS OF BUILDING CONSTEUCTION The author has given some attention to earth slips in railwaycuttings, and considers that the general outline, except for the col-lection of debris at the base, may be taken as the concave slope of asemi-parabola with the vertex at the…
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