Item #: 330-3314-02
Author: Alan Macnab
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
ISBN:0071373314
Format: Paperback
Your Price: $93.95
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Essential Earth Retention Systems information with this Handbook
Presents a systematic and comprehensive presentation of temporary excavation shoring and earth retention systems used to construct permanent facilities inside them. These systems are used to construct underground pipelines, tunnels, tank and storage facilities, foundations and structures. Each chapter presents a shoring system type description, how it is constructed, equipment requirements, cost analysis, etc. Safety, inspection and testing codes and methods included throughout. 531 pp.Earth Retention Systems Handbook - Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the About
- Introduction
- Types of Excavations
- Types of Shoring Systems
- Lateral Support
- Facing
- Shoring Uses
- Investigations
- Engineering Properties of Retained Soils
- Forces on Walls
- Failure Modes of Shoring
- Design Methods
- Ground Water Control
- Installation Equipment and Techniques
- Load Testing of Anchors
- Monitoring
- OSHA Regulations (Standards--29CFR)
- Computer Design
- Tables
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Index