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Lane's weighted creep: a standalone construct

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Geotechnical engineering

empirical rule for safety against piping under dams in which vertical seepage paths count fully and horizontal paths count one third.

In geotechnical engineering, Lane's weighted creep refers to empirical rule for safety against piping under dams in which vertical seepage paths count fully and horizontal paths count one third. This meaning comes from Lane (1935) in Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers.[1]

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Lane, E. W. (1935). Security from Under-Seepage-Masonry Dams on Earth Foundations. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 100(1), 1235-1272. https://doi.org/10.1061/taceat.0004655

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