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Definition of Overturning
1. overturn [v] - See also: overturn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overturning
Literary usage of Overturning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"Resistance to overturning.—The wind pressure on a building tends to rotate ...
Section through mill building to illustrate overturning moment of wind load. ..."
2. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"The maximum overturning moment about this axil a: 100 (length) x 120 (height) X
... The ratio of resistance to overturning should be not less than 1>£ to 1. ..."
3. Structural Engineers' Handbook: Data for the Design and Construction of by Milo Smith Ketchum (1918)
"A retaining wall must be stable (i) against overturning, (2) against sliding,
and (3) against crushing the masonry or the foundation. ..."
4. Structural Engineers' Handbook: Data for the Design and Construction of by Milo Smith Ketchum (1914)
"A retaining wall must be stable (i) against overturning, (2) against sliding,
and (3) against crushing the masonry or the ..."
5. A Text Book of the Principles of Physics by Alfred Daniell (1895)
"Work done in overturning a body. — If there be rotation round the point C of Fig.
95, so far that M, the centre of gravity of the body, ..."
6. The Design of Walls, Bins, and Grain Elevators by Milo Smith Ketchum (1911)
"A retaining wall must be stable (i) against overturning, (2) against sliding,
and (3) against crushing the masonry or the foundation. ..."
7. Retaining-walls for Earth: Including the Theory of Earth-pressure as by Malverd Abijah Howe (1911)
"H Stability against overturning. — Let A BCD, Fig. 12, represent a section of a
trapezoidal wall, TR the direction of the earth-thrust, JG the vertical ..."
8. The Design of Highway Bridges of Steel, Timber and Concrete by Milo Smith Ketchum (1920)
"A retaining wall must be stable (i) against overturning, (2) against sliding,
and (3) against crushing the masonry or the foundation. ..."
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