Earthwork and Retaining Walls

iv, 90 pp. Marbled endpapers. A detailed work on landscape architecture from a structural engineering perspective, published the year the Great Depression began. Includes: Earthwork: Field Measurement; Definitions; Dimension of Cross-Sections; Surveys; Earthwork Computations; Prismoids; Three-Level Sections; Irregular Sections; Side-Hill Work; Transition from Cut to Fill; Miscellaneous Problems; Correction for Curvature; Formation of Embankments; Methods of Forming Embankments; Mass Diagram; Design of Retaining Walls: Stability of Retaining Walls; Introduction; Earth Pressure; Investigation of Stability; Methods of Design; Types of Retaining Walls; Design of Reinforced-Concrete Walls; General Features; Design of Cantilever Retaining Walls; Design of Counterfort Retaining Walls.