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Excerpt from Theory and Practice in the Design and Construction of Dock Walls
The graphic method, heretofore chiefly applied to calculating the strains on roofs and girders, has been freely made use of to render the meaning of the algebraical formulae more thoroughly intelligible.
In classifying different structures, dock walls may be said to occupy a situation intermediate between masonry dams and retaining walls, the former being built to support a pressure of water, and the latter to resist a thrust of earth. A dock wall has to perform both these functions.
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