Diagonal strutting is sometimes used at the corners of excavation to leave a large working space at excavation level. Sometimes, raking struts are observed in long flying shores across excavation and these struts serve to decrease the span length of struts.
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This question is taken from book named – A Self Learning Manual – Mastering Different Fields of Civil Engineering Works (VC-Q-A-Method) by Vincent T. H. CHU.
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