You would expect your home’s foundation to remain intact and provide service for life after construction. But that is unlikely to be the case, especially if you have water problems or drainage ...

A retaining wall has to resist immense pressure from the weight of the soil, but what many people fail to consider is the added force of water accumulation, also called hydrostatic pressure.

A review of literature and reported operating experience on the use of hydrostatic ... a set of failure-pressure-vs.-defect-size relationships for a specific diameter, wall thickness, and grade ...

Fig. 2 shows the build-up of dislocation walls along grain boundaries and dislocation line-ups in crystals with the application of hydrostatic pressure. (3) Once the aforementioned structure of ...