1Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Maastricht University Medical Center, the Netherlands; 2Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA. Sjef van der Linden, MD, PhD Muhammad A Khan, MD, FRCP, MACP Please address correspondence to: Dr Sjef van der Linden, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Maastricht University Medical Center, P.O. Box 580...

Abstract The determination of the earth pressure coefficients (K) in geotechnical engineering is one most critical procedures designing retaining walls. However, theories are made for either clay or sands, where c-ϕ soils least analysed. In this paper, an analysis drained mixed based Mazindrani and Ganjali (J Geotech Geoenviron Eng 123:110–112, 1997) theory was carried out. Earth generally used...

Myron Goldsmith (1918-96) was a unique figure in the development of tall building design. He successfully blended the roles of architect, engineer and teacher throughout his tenure at Skidmore Owings and Merrill (SOM) and in the Department of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). Indeed, many of the projects supervised by Goldsmith and his colleagues, to include the pre-em...