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Drystone retaining walls :

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1482250888

(Number (ISBN

9781482250886

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Drystone retaining walls :

General Material Designation

[Book]

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design, construction and assessment /

First Statement of Responsibility

Paul F. McCombie, Jean-Claude Morel, and Denis Garnier

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xvi, 170 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

25 cm

Series Title

Applied geotechnics series

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-162) and index

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Introduction -- An introduction to the behaviour of simple earth retaining structures -- Behaviour of drystone retaining structures -- Analysis and design -- Construction -- Assessment

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"Drystone retaining walls make very efficient use of local materials and sit comfortably in their environment. They make an important contribution to heritage and to the character of the landscape and are loved by many people who value the skill and ingenuity that has gone into their construction, as well as simply how they look. And yet, in engineering terms, they are complex. They can deform significantly as their loading changes and their constituent stones weather. This gives them ductility--the deal with changes by adapting to them. In some ways, they behave like conventional concrete retaining walls, but in many ways they are better. They cannot be designed or assessed correctly unless these differences are understood. This book draws on theoretical work and full-scale practical testing to explain how these structures work, without presuming that the reader has received an engineering education. The book goes on to give enough detail to give the professional engineer confidence in the methods used in design and assessment, and insight into what matters most in the way in which drystone retaining walls are built. It shows how to design new or replacement drystone retaining walls that are efficient, sustainable, attractive, and in keeping with the character of the area where they are built, and demonstrates how to make fair assessments of existing walls"--Back cover

Dry stone walls-- Design and construction

Dry stone walls-- Standards

Dry stone walls, Specifications

Retaining walls-- Design and construction

Retaining walls-- Standards

Retaining walls, Specifications

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McCombie, Paul F.

Garnier, Denis

Morel, Jean-Claude

Date of Transaction

20160309110323.0

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