... walls. The original walls were the traditional brick bananashaped walls, but during construction part of the south wall failed as a result of overstressing the London Clay foundation.5 Thewall was rebuilt on a timber raft with timber piles. A further failure of the south wall occurred in1876 butthe...

... investigation, design and construction. 3. The original design teamappointed by LadbrokeCity & CountyLand Company in 1985 included Leslie JonesArchitectsandOveArup & Partners (Bristol) as civil, structural and buildingservices engineers.In 1986, Schal International Limited joined the team as construction...

... originally proposed for the new British Library.3' This compares two computer runws ith wall stiffness varied by a factor of 3. There is almost no change in soil pressures or wall displacements. The significant change in bending momentis a function primarilyof the wall stiffness. 70. This effect applies...

... of a previous refined scheme developed by Falconer and Owens: with the scheme appearing originally to be robustandaccurate inpredictingwater levels and velocities in theHumber Estuary.Similarnumericalproblems were encountered in usingotherschemes, including those documented by Leendertse and G r i t t ~ nS, t...

... the axial force P , the bending moment M and the internal stresses for the general case as shown in Fig.3. The original arch centre-lineis used as areference position. 7. In order to achieve equilibrium, both of the following conditions must be satisfied + +P = P1 P , P , (1) +M = P , e , P 2 e 2 (2...

... calibration. Hence the method by which this calibrationwas carried outis now described. 29. The adopted calibration data were the mean annual inshore wave climate at Shoreham Beach andthemeanannuallongshoretransport rate. Themean annual inshore wave climate was originally derived by Hydraulics Research Ltd...

... the near surfacgeeology of the Basin. Geology of Docklands Based on published maps 6. The geology of the area was mapped originally by the Geological Survey during the middle nineteenth century. This was revised in the early part of the twentieth centuryfollowing a resurveyfor the six inch to one mile...

... was considered too great for a pipejack, and therefore only a segmental lining tunnel was specified and billed. As with phase 7, single-pass segmental linings with gaskets were specified.The western 240 m of the tunnel were in LC, the remainder (1060 m) originally in the WRB, with a transition zoneout of the LC...

... s original work on colliding spheres. As a result, the author concluded: Insofar aspile driving is concerned Newton s experiments show that a dynamicpile driving fomula cannot be based on simple Newtonian impact . Terzaghi, in a discussion on the use of Newtonian impact, concluded that theloss...

... many derivatives) described in 720 FLOW BOREMODELFORSEDIMENTTRANSPORT:PART 1 the Shore protection manual. This equation was originally derived for sand trans- port,althoughit is alsocommonly usedforshingle transport.Morerecently, attempts have been made to make the CERC equation more realistic...

... effects. Some further studies on this problem are necessary before the full effects of the vertical loads canbe taken into account without use of the non-linear finite-element method. 68. With reference to # 58 and 59, it should be noted that the proposed plastic theory was developed originally...