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Journal Article

Author
Darwin, D. V.
Title
Earth as a structural material, with particular reference to road construction
In
Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia
Imprint
vol. 5, no. 12, Dec 1933, pp. 425-429
Description

Abridgment of paper No.426, which originated in the Melbourne Division of The Institution. Approved for publication, by the Road Construction Standing Committee of the Council.

Abstract

In a paper presented by L. F. Loder before the Melbourne
Division of The Institution in 1931, attention was drawn to the importance of soil mechanics. Practically every engineering structure depends for its stability and permanence in some way upon the strength and stability of soil. This is true for all structures subject to earth pressure and for all foundations, such as those of railways, dams, bridges, docks, buildings, and highway pavements, and has a further bearing where soil and allied materials are used in the actual construction, as in road, railway, and channel formations, levee banks, earth dams and certain road crusts. In road construction, the factors requiring measurement are set out seven tables.

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