Adams, Henry · London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 159
through theabsence of weep holes, the pressure is considerably increased beyond even 144 THE MECHANICS OP BUILDING CONSTRUCTION that due to water of the full depth. Sir B. Baker stated that the thrustof dry earth being taken as 1 and water ^, the thrust of a waterloggedsoil would be 1^. The… … r,gr fsr /=;g ^8 /=/ff 439 Figs. 438 and 439, it being remembered that in Fig. 438 the weight ofwedge acting will be less, and in Fig. 439 more, than in Fig. 437,because the quantity of earth varies in the wedge between back of walland line of rupture. In the case of reservoir walls the triangle…
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