Radford's cyclopedia of construction; carpentry, building and architecture. Based on the practical experience of a large staff of experts in actual constrcution work (1909)
Johnson, Alfred Sidney, 1860-, Radford, William A., 1865- · Chicago Radford Architectural Co · leaf 306
wall istermed the filling or back-fill. This materialhas a tendency to slope out to an inclinationwhich is less steep when fine, loose, or wet thanwhen coarse and compact. The wall must bedesigned in such a way that it will resist thistendency of the back-fill to spread out; or, inother words, it… … Fig. 83. Section of Gravity Ee-taining Wall. rig. 84. Retaining Wall of L-Section. natural slope; and this, in turn, depends on thenature and condition of the material. As an ap-proximation which has been assumed to repre-sent average conditions, the horizontal thrustof earth filling at any depth…
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