Title Drystone retaining walls : design, construction and assessment / Paul F. McCombie, Jean-Claude Morel and Denis Garnier

Published Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2016 ©2016

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Description 1 online resource Series Applied geotechnics series Applied geotechnics series Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. An introduction to the behaviour of simple earth retaining structures -- 3. Behaviour of drystone retaining structures -- 4. Analysis and design -- 5. Construction -- 6. Assessment Summary "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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes English Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 29, 2015) Subject Retaining walls -- Design Dry stone walls -- Design Retaining walls -- Specifications Dry stone walls -- Specifications Retaining walls -- Standards Dry stone walls -- Standards TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Civil -- General. Dry stone walls Retaining walls Genre/Form Electronic books Specifications Form Electronic book Author Morel, Jean-Claude, author. Garnier, Denis, author ISBN 9781482250893 1482250896 9781498777292 1498777295 9780429170485 0429170483

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