Retaining Walls

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Introduction - General principles of design - Difierent forms of retaining walls - Arrangement of earth filling behind embank ment walls - Limiting slope of battered face - Walls with but tresses and counterforts - Vaulted retaining walls - Buttressed horizontal arched walls - Land ties - Vaulted revetment walls Surcharged retaining walls - Natural slope of earths - Simple formulae and rules for computing the thickness of walls for retaining earth or water.