The Rudiments of Civil Engineering, Revised, with Additions, by D.K. Clark (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ... 5 tons, laid as regularly as possible, tho slopes being covered with the largest blocks, laid as headers. The breakwater of Cette, Fig. 215, is principally remarkable on account of the great height to which it is carried above tho highest water line; this is not less than 19 feet. The total length is about 514 yards, and the outline on plan is convex towards the open sea. During its execution, observations were made from which it may be inferred that the constant undermining of the sand upon which this breakwater was constucted, so long, at least, as the transverse profile was made very steep towards the open sea, would indicate a danger of superinducing a ground-swell highly injurious to the permanent solidity of the works, unless the sea slope in similar oases were carried out at once to the full width. It is also seriously questioned by the pilots resorting to this harbour, whether the breakwater does not materially assist. the natural tendency to silt up f which so strongly marks this and several other ports of the Medii terranean, The breakwater upon Lake Erie, 7 Fig. 216, at the entrance of the port t of Buffalo, in the State of New A York, is constructed with nearly as much solidity as similar works upon the shores of the ocean. Its length is 484 yards in a straight line; the platform at the level of the first set-off is 18 feet wide, and 5 feet above the waterline in the interior. A wall 5 feet high is carried up above this platform, and beyond this a gentle slope of about 8 base to 1 in the height is carried down to bottom of the lake. Towards the port the face of the breakwater is perpendicular, and it is defended from bebg injured by vessels lying alongside it by guard-piles driven in every 5 feet apart. A row of sheeting piles is d...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ... 5 tons, laid as regularly as possible, tho slopes being covered with the largest blocks, laid as headers. The breakwater of Cette, Fig. 215, is principally remarkable on account of the great height to which it is carried above tho highest water line; this is not less than 19 feet. The total length is about 514 yards, and the outline on plan is convex towards the open sea. During its execution, observations were made from which it may be inferred that the constant undermining of the sand upon which this breakwater was constucted, so long, at least, as the transverse profile was made very steep towards the open sea, would indicate a danger of superinducing a ground-swell highly injurious to the permanent solidity of the works, unless the sea slope in similar oases were carried out at once to the full width. It is also seriously questioned by the pilots resorting to this harbour, whether the breakwater does not materially assist. the natural tendency to silt up f which so strongly marks this and several other ports of the Medii terranean, The breakwater upon Lake Erie, 7 Fig. 216, at the entrance of the port t of Buffalo, in the State of New A York, is constructed with nearly as much solidity as similar works upon the shores of the ocean. Its length is 484 yards in a straight line; the platform at the level of the first set-off is 18 feet wide, and 5 feet above the waterline in the interior. A wall 5 feet high is carried up above this platform, and beyond this a gentle slope of about 8 base to 1 in the height is carried down to bottom of the lake. Towards the port the face of the breakwater is perpendicular, and it is defended from bebg injured by vessels lying alongside it by guard-piles driven in every 5 feet apart. A row of sheeting piles is d...

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March 2012

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March 2012

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246 x 189 x 10mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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188

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978-1-130-87018-3

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9781130870183

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1-130-87018-9



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