Underground Conduits - An Appraisal of Modern Research

Abstract

The increasingly successful application of scientific principles of mechanics to the analysis of soil has characterized engineering development during the first two score years of the twentieth century. A number of problems that involve the soil as an integral part of the finished structure and which a generation or two ago were considered by many to be too complex to be subject to orderly classification and solution are yielding to the onslaught of organized research.