 | William Laxton - 1845 - 564 pages
...a long line of projecting buttresses would be unobjectionable, the counterforts becoming buttresses and merely changing places with the wall. On account...of the wall must contain more setting material than tbe face, with tbe same quantity of solid brick ; that is, if the work be bonded through. Hence the... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - 1844 - 418 pages
...a long line of projecting buttresses would be unobjectionable, the counterforts becoming buttresses and merely changing places with the wall. On account...common practice of battering the faces of retaining walla in curved lines and of radiating the^ beds of the brickwork- composing them from the centre of... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - 1844 - 538 pages
...a long line of projecting buttresses would be unobjectionable, the counterforts becoming buttresses and merely changing places with the wall. On account...solid brick ; that is, if the work be bonded through. Hence the back of the wall will be more liable to compression and settlement than the face. Counterforts... | |
 | William Hosking - 1844 - 84 pages
...a long line of projecting buttresses would be unobjectionable, the counterforts becoming buttresses and merely changing places with the wall. On account...solid brick ; that is, if the work be bonded through. Hence the back of the wall will be more liable to compression and settlement than the face. Counterforts... | |
 | 1846 - 910 pages
...a long line of projecting buttresses would be unobjectionable, the counterforts becoming buttresses and merely changing places with the wall. On account...solid brick; that is, if the work be bonded through. Hence the back of the wall will be more liable to compression and settlement than the face. Counterforts... | |
 | 1846 - 454 pages
...a long line of projecting buttresses would be unobjectionable, the counterforts becoming buttresses and merely changing places with the wall. On account...solid brick; that is, if the work be bonded through. Hence the back of the wall will be more liable to compression and settlement than the face. Counterforts... | |
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... Wharf and quay walls, and the revetment walls of military works, may require a fair face, unbroken by projections in front, but this is not the case with retaining walls for roads and railways, where a long line of projecting buttresses would be unobjectionable,... 