HISTORY OF RETAINING WALL DESIGN

This paper reviews the history of retaining wall design, beginning with the insertion of horizontal mats in Newgrange Cairn. The retaining walls used in the Pyramids, in the cairn of Gavrinis, and various tombs and temples are also illustrated and discussed. Excerpts are taken from Vitruvius' De Re Architecutra in which the use of internal buttresses is commented on at length. Details are also provided of the fortification of Ypres in 1699. The theories of Coulomb, Rankine, Sokolowski, Boussinesq are also touched upon. For the covering abstract see IRRD 860485.

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• Authors:
  • KERISEL, J
• Conference:
  • RETAINING STRUCTURES. PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE ORGANIZED BY THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS AND HELD ON 20-23 JULY, 1992 AT ROBINSON COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
• Publication Date: 1993

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 1-16

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Design; History; Retaining walls
• ITRD Terms: 8525: Conference; 9011: Design (overall design); 9096: History; 3359: Retaining wall
• Subject Areas: Design; History;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00643194
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 0-7277-1932-7
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Mar 10 1994 12:00AM