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Books : Earth Retention Systems HandbookIn association with Amazon.comby: Alan Macnab  List Price: $94.00 Amazon.com's Price: $67.68 You Save: $26.32 (28%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 624 EAN: 9780071373319 ISBN: 0071373314 Label: McGraw-Hill Professional Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Professional Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 531 Publication Date: March 19, 2002 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Studio: McGraw-Hill Professional Sales Rank: 138672 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Presents a systematic and comprehensive presentation of temporary excavation shoring and earth retention systems used to construct permanent facilities inside them. These systems are used to construct underground pipelines, tunnels, tank and storage facilities, foundations and structures. Each chapter presents a shoring system type description, how it is constructed, equipment requirements, cost analysis, etc. Safety, inspection and testing codes and methods included throughout. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Great Text on Retention Systems and ShoringThis is a wonderful text on shoring systems, written by a contractor's engineer with a wealth of experience on the subject. The text is clear, concise, and well-organized. It contains sections on many common shoring systems, from sheet piles to soil nails. It covers soils aspects, structural details, and construction methods. The book is best as a guide to the many shoring systems available, their advantages and drawbacks, and construction methods. For that, it is invaluable--there ... Read More Rating: - Earth Retention Systems HandbookA good practical handbook. It is a good reference book for both geotechnical and structural engineers. Rating:  - great book! really a bible!this book is really great! it covers a lot of techniques and methods that are otherwise dispersed in magazines and companies, and that are rarely classified. it offers a section on design, monitoring, tables and software, for micropiles to anchor to sheet piles. i have no words. a great thanks to the author and the editor, for your contribution to the diffusion of knowledge. Browse for similar items by category:
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