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Van Nostrand's engineering magazine (1879)

[New York : D. Van Nostrand] · leaf 110

An illustration from Van Nostrand's engineering magazine, 1879, leaf 110
e. thrnst to be A02l and the corresponding The successive planes of rupture, cor- AO thrust=44' (in left Fig.) X-^ Xr = Al responding to different depths below c are now all parallel, so that the earth X 14^X1260: thrust increases uniformly as we go 291.8 kilograms. down and will be proportional to… … The earth thrust will therefore be of gravity, with the earth thrust acting applied at a depth below B equal to at \kS) above A we find that the result- ant passes through the outer toe of wall 2Bi?-BQ^ .-. g=:0. It is not exact to take the earth 3BA^-BC^ thrust as acting at -J^AO above A, since…

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