A treatise on architecture and building construction (1899)
International Correspondence Schools · Scranton, The Colliery engineer co. · leaf 28
. 5 {b) shows a view of part of theintercepting drain; a, a are openings for the water toenter. MASONRY. 17 38. If foundations are laid in open clay, another diffi-culty is often met and must be guarded against. Clay banks may slip, when their slopes present such asection as shown in Fig. 6, where… … Fig. 6. form from <f to t a thick, soapy bed so that the clay bank mayslip by its own weight especially if that weight be increasedby that of the building d. This danger may be averted by building the drain/at theupper end of the clay bank c e, to intercept the waterrunning between the clay bank…
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