Rankine, William John Macquorn, 1820-1872, Millar, William J, Tait, Peter Guthrie, 1831-1901 · London, C. Griffin and company · leaf 608
0,000 1 5,625 49 38 98 76 9-8 7-6 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF MASONRY DAMS. 553 fore, in preparing the accompanying design, I have thought it best tobe guided in this, as in the previous case, by practical examples, and toconsider it sufficient to make the law of diminution such, that at thedepth of… … at the same depth in the outer face of the dam across the Furens—viz.,107 feet of masonry, or about 6| kilogrammes on the square centimetre. 11. Tension to be avoided—I have kept in view another principle, notreferred to by the French authors—viz., that there ought to be no practi-cally appreciable…
