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Jan 1917
Earth Pressures: A Practical Comparison of Theories and Experiments
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Volume 81, Issue 1
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Of all structures which the engineer of to-day is required to design for conditions of static loading, there is probably none which is so irritating as the ordinary retaining wall. This, of course, is due to the lack of definite and correct data relative to the pressures exerted by the various kinds of earthy materials and to the variety of formulas which have been proposed for determining the amount and direction of the resultant earth pressure which acts on a retaining wall.
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L. D. Cornish, M.ASCE
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