Stone retaining walls add elegance to your lawn while stabilizing sloped terrain. If you're worried about the cost, here's ...

There’s nothing left of the mountainside that once held up I-40 after Pigeon River scoured away the slope, sending it tumbling into the river. Hauling in enough rock to pile ...

Building a stackable retaining wall may seem like a project for a professional, but it's actually something you can do ...

“Rock” is so loose a label as to be pretty much meaningless these days. But the best rock albums, even if they aren’t that musically similar, share some things in common: boundary-breaking ...

Retaining walls are built to hold back soil or rock and prevent erosion or collapse in areas with ... Small openings in the wall allow trapped water to escape. Gravel Backfill: Layers of gravel behind ...

You may not need it to scale rock walls, vault over sand dunes or evade speeding leopards, but it’s nice to know the OCTA can do the job if called upon. The writer was a guest of the automaker.

In mountain road engineering, due to the influence of geology, topography, and boundary line of the land, many retaining walls are close to the stable rock strata, and a large number of foundation ...

The RMT-150C rock mechanics test system was used. The backfill was loaded continuously at a constant speed of 0.6 mm/min, the maximum load was 1,000 kN, and the piston stroke was 50 mm, recorded once ...