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IN recent years, increasing attention has been given to investigation in that branch of science designated soil mechanics, which deals with the behaviour of soil when treated as a material of construction. An account has been given in the report of the Building Research Board of the advances made in this branch, and it is therefore of especial interest and value to have the views of an engineer as to the methods of putting into practice such information as is available. These have been expressed with clearness and a full force of conviction by C. Hyde Wollaston, Iate chief engineer in the Public Works Department of Burma. His aim is to bring home to engineers the desirability and importance of treating soils as materials of construction and with the same attention as is given to timber, steel, and concrete.
Foundations and Earth Pressures
By C. Hyde Wollaston. Pp. 295. (London: Hutchinson's Scientific and Technical Publications, 1939.) 21s. net.
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Engineering. Nature 144, 898 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144898b0
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