Manual for railroad engineers and engineering students : containing the rules and tables needed for the location, construction, and equipment of railroads as built in the United States (1883)
Vose, George L. (George Leonard), 1831-1910 · Boston : Lee and Shepard · leaf 360
Fig. 14:. side walls, backing, and paving. For larger works of the samekind, or for passing a road beneath the railway, or even for cross-ing a small stream, either of the plans shown in Fig. 143 maybe used. … Fig- 143- Retaining Walls. A revetment, or retaining wall, made to sustain a mass of earthor water, requires a certain thickness to resist an overthrow. Themass of earth tends to assume its natural slope, and thus thrustshorizontally against the masonry. The amount of this thrustdepends upon the…
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