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What does geostatic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (civil engineering) Relating to the pressure exerted by earth or similar substance.
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Calculations of stability and strains of a pile wall solution 40 cm in thickness were carried out by geostatic analyses.
The fill depth and soil texture provided a representative state of geostatic stress load on the products tested.
Thus the correct name for Ptolemy's system is not geocentric, as it is usually called, but geostatic.
The geocentric, geostatic cosmos of Aristotle having been quite exploded, all that remained was an infinite and intricate concatenation of causes and effects.
As a rule, it has to exceed the geostatic pressure of the rock layer itself, but these are determined in each individual case using lab stress tests and math calculations.
It is included in the program for the complex study of the available wells and the upgradation of the system to maintain geostatic pressure.

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