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Practical foundation engineering handbook / [edited by] Robert Wade Brown. 2nd ed.
p. cm.
Includes index
ISBN 0-07-135139-6
1. Foundations Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Brown, Robert Wade.
TA775 .P725 2000
624.1'5 dc21 00-058409

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