|
|
Definition of Retaining wall
1. Noun. A wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth).
Definition of Retaining wall
1. Noun. any of several structures used to restrain a vertical-faced mass of earth ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retaining Wall
Literary usage of Retaining wall
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)
"A thin film of water, held between a retaining wall and the fill ... Stability of
a retaining wall.—Two motions of the wall tend to result due to the action ..."
2. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"A thin film of water, held between a retaining wall and the fill behind it, exerts
the same pressure against the wall as a body of water of the same depth. ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1910)
"These plans provided for a basement and a retaining wall from four to five feet
distant, and running parallel with Bronson's building. ..."
4. A Treatise on Masonry Construction by Ira Osborn Baker (1914)
"retaining wall is a wall of masonry for sustaining the pressure of earth ...
A retaining wall is sometimes called a revetment wall, although that term ..."
5. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1921)
"The combination with a retaining wall •138 having a *heel, of a motal structure
embedded vertically in said wall and obliquely in said heel, ..."
6. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1911)
"18074 F. The Determination of Retaining-Wall Sections (Ueber die ... Some Retaining
Wall Construction in Connection with the Chicago & Northwestern Ry. ..."
7. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1912)
"A complete mathematical exposition of retaining-wall theory. Ills. Serial.
1st part. 4500 w. ... 25431 A. A Treatise on retaining wall Design. JH Everest. ..."
8. The Design of Highway Bridges of Steel, Timber and Concrete by Milo Smith Ketchum (1920)
"The maximum pressure at the toe of the retaining wall should never exceed the
safe bearing ... When the retaining wall rests on a compressible material, ..."
Other Resources:
