 | Dennis Hart Mahan - Civil engineering - 1852 - 420 pages
...itself in layers with a dip from the sides inwards ; this will in a great measure counteract ROADS. any tendency to slips outward. The foot of the slopes...therefore should be spared to give the embankment a good footmg on the natural surface upon which it rests, particularly at the foot of the slope. For this... | |
 | Henry Law - Roads - 1855 - 180 pages
...buttressing them either by a low stone wall, or by forming a slight excavation for the same purpose. When the axis of the roadway is laid out on the side...of the slope. For this purpose the natural surface should be cut into steps, or offsets, and the foot of the slope be secured by buttressing it against... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1870 - 740 pages
...buttressing them either by a low stone wall, or by forming a slight excavation for the same purpose. When the axis of the roadway is laid out on the side...is to extend out the embankment gradually along the line of excavation. This method is insecure, and no pains therefore should be spared to give the embankment... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1870 - 736 pages
...buttressing them either by a low stone wall, or by forming a slight excavation for the same purpose. When the axis of the roadway is laid out on the side...is to extend out the embankment gradually along the line of excavation. This method is insecure, and no pains therefore should be spared to give the embankment... | |
 | Henry Law - 1877 - 416 pages
...the surface-water from running down the side slopes, as they would soon be washed into gullies by it. When the axis of the roadway is laid out on the side...of the slope. For this purpose the natural surface should be cut into steps, or offsets, and the foot of the slope be secured by buttressing it against... | |
 | Henry Law - Pavements - 1877 - 416 pages
...the surface-water from running down the side slopes, as they would soon be washed into gullies by it. When the axis of the roadway is laid out on the side...of the slope. For this purpose the natural surface should be cut into steps, or offsets, and the foot of the slope be secured by buttressing it against... | |
 | Henry Law - Pavements - 1887 - 424 pages
...the surface-water from running down the side slopes, as they would soon be washed into gullies by it. "When the axis of the roadway is laid out on the side...gradually along the whole line of excavation. This method In ''Cure, and no pains therefore should be spared to give have been Tspient a good footing on the... | |
 | Henry Law, Daniel Kinnear Clark - Pavements - 1890 - 424 pages
...the surface-water from running down the side slopes, as they would soon be washed into gullies by it. "When the axis of the roadway is laid out on the side...of the slope. For this purpose the natural surface should be cut into steps, or offsets, and the foot of the slope be secured by * "A Treatise on Civil... | |
 | Austin Thomas Byrne - Pavements - 1892 - 736 pages
...out on the side slope of a hill, and the road is formed partly by excavating and partly by embanking, the usual and most simple method is to extend out the embankment gradually along the whole line of the excavation. This method is insecure; the excavated material if simply deposited on the natural... | |
 | Henry Law, Daniel Kinnear Clark - Pavements - 1901 - 568 pages
...the surface-water from running down the side slopes, as they would soon be washed into gullies by it. "When the axis of the roadway is laid out on the side...and no pains therefore should be spared to give the emtmnkment a good footing on the natural surface upon which it rests, particularly at the foot of the... | |
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When the axis of the roadway is laid out on the side slope of a hill, and the road-surface is formed partly by excavating and partly by embanking out, the usual and most simple method is to extend out the embankment gradually along the whole line of excavation.... 
