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Publisher

CRC Press

Year

2014

ISBN

9781482206616

Edition

Topic

Architecture

Subtopic

Architecture Methods & Materials

Front Cover
Contents
Preface
Authors
Chapter 1: Soil behaviour
Chapter 2: Soil properties
Chapter 3: Factors affecting earth pressure
Chapter 4: Water and retaining structures
Chapter 5: Global and local instability
Chapter 6: Wall selection
Chapter 7: Avoiding failure
Chapter 8: Introduction to analysis
Chapter 9: Gravity walls
Chapter 10: Embedded walls
Chapter 11: Composite walls and other support systems
Appendix A: Classical earth pressure theory
Appendix B: Earth pressure coefficients
References
Back Cover