William Allsop, HR Wallingford
ICE Vernon Harcourt Lecture 2010
The United Kingdom is a maritime nation which has depended on its harbours for defence and trade for most of recorded time.
The most common form of construction until the late 1800s used stone blockwork walls founded on rubble mounds. These were later supplemented or replaced by concrete blocks.
This lecture concentrates particularly on those forms of constructure. William Allsop identifies the key modus operandii and failure modes of these structures. He also discusses how recent research studies in the UK, Netherlands and Germany have revealed how these walls work and fail.
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