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  2. Tieback (geotechnical) - Wikipedia

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    Typically in the form of a horizontal wire or rod, or a helical anchor, a tieback is commonly used along with other retaining systems (e.g. soldier piles, sheet piles, secant and tangent walls) to provide additional stability to cantilevered retaining walls. [1]

  3. Gabion - Wikipedia

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    A gabion wall is a retaining wall made of stacked stone-filled gabions tied together with wire. Gabion walls are usually battered (angled back towards the slope), or stepped back with the slope, rather than stacked vertically. The life expectancy of gabions depends on the lifespan of the wire, not on the contents of the basket.

  4. Retaining wall - Wikipedia

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    Drystone retaining walls are normally self-draining. As an example, the International Building Code requires retaining walls to be designed to ensure stability against overturning, sliding, excessive foundation pressure and water uplift; and that they be designed for a safety factor of 1.5 against lateral sliding and overturning. [6]

  5. Mechanically stabilized earth - Wikipedia

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    The wall face is often of precast, segmental blocks, panels or geocells that can tolerate some differential movement. The walls are infilled with granular soil, with or without reinforcement, while retaining the backfill soil. Reinforced walls utilize horizontal layers typically of geogrids. The reinforced soil mass, along with the facing ...

  6. Primitive Technology - Wikipedia

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    Primitive Technology is a YouTube channel run by John Plant. Based in Far North Queensland, Australia, the series demonstrates the process of making tools and buildings using only materials found in the wild. Created in May 2015, the channel has gained over 10.8 million subscribers and over 1.12 billion views as of December 2023.

  7. List of most-viewed YouTube videos - Wikipedia

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    "Numb" by Linkin Park was the first 2000s video predating YouTube to reach 1 billion views in November 2018. [59] "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen was the first 1970s video (and pre-1990s video) to reach 1 billion views in July 2019. [60] "Sweet Child o' Mine" by Guns N' Roses was the first 1980s video to reach 1 billion views in October 2019. [61]

  8. Bunding - Wikipedia

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    Bunding, also called a bund wall, is a constructed retaining wall around storage "where potentially polluting substances are handled, processed or stored, for the purposes of containing any unintended escape of material from that area until such time as a remedial action can be taken."

  9. Wing wall - Wikipedia

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    Their top width is 0.5 m, face batter 1 in 12 and back batter 1 in 6, weep holes are provided.. Return wing walls: used where banks are high and hard or firm. Their top width is 1.5 m and face is vertical and back battered 1 in 4. [2] Scour can be a problem for wing walls and abutments both, as the water in the stream erodes the supporting soil ...