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On Rankine's Formula for Earth Pressure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

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In a short course of lectures on “Railway Practice,” the author was recently called upon to deal with the mechanical principles involved in the design of retaining walls. What has come to be known as Rankine's method had to be explained, at all events, in its practical application. But the time at the author's disposal did not admit of the general consideration of the theory of stress by which Rankine in characteristic fashion leads up (in his Applied Mechanics) to the particular problem under discussion. The author had therefore to choose between omitting a demonstration or making a short cut, which at the same time should be of a rigorous nature.

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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1889