Foundations
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Digging in wet ground
5,000 years of history
5000 years of foundations
Paris. Le trou de Halles. (Droits réservés)
Foundation piles dating from several thousand years B.C. have been found under a pyramid, but "art" did not gave way to "science" until the second half of the twentieth century, as the result of progress in fundamental science and machinery. People who have just reached retirement age now will have practically witnessed the birth and development of this discipline.
With the large scale displacement of the population from countryside to the town, the central areas of towns and cities has become increasingly (...)
Introduction to geotechnics
Invisible works, essential and complex
Foundations are invisible works, but essential for the superstructures they support. The works involved are constantly becoming more complex Mankind has always tried to dominate the soil in order to build on it.
Construction, at Sangatte (Département of Pas de Calais), of the access shaft for construction of the Channel Tunnel (Rights reserved)
