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Rockery Design and Construction Guidelines
Rockeries, also known as dry stack walls, consist of earth retaining and/or protection structures typically comprised of rough onsite rocks stacked in an interlocking fashion with no mortar, concrete, or steel to retain cut or fill slopes. They are context sensitive solutions that in many cases are also relatively low cost. Several rockeries exist as historic or cultural features on many Forest Highway and National Park roads. Many were apparently built in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) era of the late 1930's; some are still performing well and others have required extensive maintenance or have failed. Generally, rockeries have not been designed according to the AASHTO Standard Specifications or other accepted wall design procedures. The wide range of implementation suggests excellent performance can be expected when certain conditions are met. There is little guidance available to standard, acceptable design and construction guidelines. Therefore, a rationally based and tested design procedure is presented to provide designers and owners with the confidence that these structures can be used in modern highway engineering. Recommended guidelines for properly constructing rockeries are also presented.
Rockery Design and Construction Guidelines
Rockeries, also known as dry stack walls, consist of earth retaining and/or protection structures typically comprised of rough onsite rocks stacked in an interlocking fashion with no mortar, concrete, or steel to retain cut or fill slopes. They are context sensitive solutions that in many cases are also relatively low cost. Several rockeries exist as historic or cultural features on many Forest Highway and National Park roads. Many were apparently built in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) era of the late 1930's; some are still performing well and others have required extensive maintenance or have failed. Generally, rockeries have not been designed according to the AASHTO Standard Specifications or other accepted wall design procedures. The wide range of implementation suggests excellent performance can be expected when certain conditions are met. There is little guidance available to standard, acceptable design and construction guidelines. Therefore, a rationally based and tested design procedure is presented to provide designers and owners with the confidence that these structures can be used in modern highway engineering. Recommended guidelines for properly constructing rockeries are also presented.
Rockery Design and Construction Guidelines
Henwood, Justin T. (author) / Haramy, Khamis Y. (author)
Earth Retention Conference (ER) 2010 ; 2010 ; Bellevue, Washington, United States
Earth Retention Conference 3 ; 854-861
2010-07-26
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
Rockery Design and Construction Guidelines
| British Library Conference Proceedings | 2010