 The properties of earth with respect to adhesion and friction are so variable that the engineer should never trust to tables or to information obtained from books to guide him in designing earthworks, when he has it in his power to obtain the necessary...  A Manual of Civil Engineering - Page 313by William John Macquorn Rankine - 1883 - 808 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1898 - 540 pages
...drained of superfluous and dangerous water. Professor Rankine " sums up the matter thus : — " The properties of earth with respect to adhesion and friction...earthworks in the same stratum or by experiment." " Historical Element " of Earthwork. — There is a further cause of variation in the behaviour of... | |
 | Building - 1891 - 418 pages
...clay are the worst ; for the sand favours the access of water, and the clay prevents its escape. " The properties of earth with respect to adhesion and friction...earthworks in the same stratum or by experiment." l Mathematical Formulee. — RANKINE'S THEORY — Earth, horizontal top. — It has been shown by Rankine... | |
 | Henry Fidler - Construction industry - 1891 - 416 pages
...clay are the worst ; for the sand favours the access of water, and the clay prevents its escape. " The properties of earth with respect to adhesion and friction...earthworks in the same stratum or by experiment." 1 Mathematical Formulae. — RANKINE'S THEORY - Earth, horizontal top. — It has been shown by Rankine... | |
 | American Society of Civil Engineers - Civil engineering - 1907 - 956 pages
...constrained to quote the opinion of that great fonnularizer, Rankine, on earth pressure. He says:* "The properties of earth with respect to adhesion and friction...of existing earthworks in the same stratum, or by experiments." CW BIRCH -NoRD, JUN. AM. Soc. CE (by letter). — Mr. Meem's Mr. Birchprincipal statement... | |
 | Irrigation - 1908 - 258 pages
...proved to be less than 1f cwt. per square foot of skin surface." Professor Rankine1 remarks: " The properties of earth with respect to adhesion and friction...that the engineer should never trust to tables, or information obtained from books . . . when he has it in his power to obtain the necessary data either... | |
 | Irrigation - 1908 - 256 pages
...repeatedly proved to be less than if cwt. per square foot of skin surface." Professor Rankine1 remarks: "The properties of earth with respect to adhesion and friction...that the engineer should never trust to tables, or information obtained from books . . . when he has it in his power to obtain the necessary data either... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland - Civil engineering - 1910 - 398 pages
...and dangerous water. Professor Rankine sums up the matter in his book (page 317) thus : — '•' The properties of earth with respect to adhesion and friction...variable that the engineer should never trust to tables nor to information obtained from books to guide him in designing earthworks, when he has it in his... | |
 | Robert Burton Buckley - Irrigation - 1911 - 438 pages
...tons on the square foot, and the subsidence was about 1 inch. Professor Rankine2 remarks : - - The properties of earth with respect to adhesion and friction...that the engineer should never trust to tables, or information obtained from books . . . when he has it in his power to obtain the necessary data either... | |
 | Leonard Metcalf, Harrison Prescott Eddy - Sanitary engineering - 1915 - 634 pages
...above agencies have full play for a considerable time in a busy street" (Horace J. Howe, p. 24). "The properties of earth with respect to adhesion and friction...information obtained from books to guide him in designing earthworksj when he has it in his power to obtain the necessary data either by observation of existing... | |
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