Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work ... (1907)
American School of Correspondence · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 121
ro at thq top. 100 REIXFORCED CONCRETE 01 If the v.-all is surcharged (which means that the earth at thetop of the wall is not level, but runs back at a slope), then the face-plate will have transverse stresses even at the top. The base-plateis held down by the pressure of the superimposed earth.… … -o 2 i)a.T5^ ° r <-2-e* 10-o-
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