Brick For Street Pavements; An Account Of Tests Made Of Bricks And Paving Blocks, With A Brief Discussion Of Street Pavements (Paperback)

AN ACCOUNT OF TESTS MADE OF BRICKS AND PAVING BLOCKS, WITH A BRIEF DISCUSSION OF STREET PAVEMENTS AND THE METHOD OF CON- STRUCTING THEM. NEW EDITION, WITH A PAPER ON Prepared for the Engineers Club of Cincinnati, April, 1894. -CONTENTS. Description of Specimens Submitted 9 How the Tests were Made 14 Abrasion and Impact 16, 42 Description of the Tables. 27 The Chemistry of Brick Manufacturing, 36 Discussion of the Tests., 38 The Absorption Tests 40 Transverse Strength Statistics of Traffic and Durability of Pavements 43 The Probable Durability of a Brick Pavement . . . 47 Municipal Methods 48 General Discussion of Pavements 53 What Shall be Specified What Has Been Done Tfte Matrix Where Should Brick be Used for Street Pavements 78 Maintenance What is in a Name. Size of Paving Brick, Country Road. A large part of the contents of this pamphlet was con- tained in a report made to the village authorities of tests of material to be used in paving streets in Avondale, where the writer was employed as village engineer. The investiga- tion then made was as thorough as the time and means at hand would justify. Inquiries for the results of the work f - - have been so numerous, and requests for the same have b.een so frequently repeated, that it has been deemed advisable to publish the work in this form. If any information or suggestions herein contained shall aid in the construction of better pavements, or prevent the waste of money upon bad ones, or shall bring people to a consideration of placing municipal improvements under systematic control and direction, or shall cause manufacturers to see that their true interest will best be subserved by plac- ing only good material upon the market, thenthis little pamphlet will have served a useful purpose. M. D. BURKE. CINCINNATI, March 16, 1892. BRICK FOR STREET PAVEMENTS. THE SAMPLES SUBMITTED FOR TESTING. It having been decided that the Main Avenue pavement should be constructed of some form of clay product, a series of tests of the various materials in market was deemed ad- visable in order to aid in selecting the proper variety, and, if found practicable, fix a standard by which the different va- rieties might be adjudged and accepted or rejected, as their qualities and powers of resistance would determine. Ac- cordingly a circular letter was addressed to manufacturers and dealers, requesting them to ship to my office, at 41 Pike Building, Cincinnati, Ohio, samples consisting of twenty or more of each of the varieties of the bricks or blocks manu- factured or sold by them for street paving purposes, to be tested. In response to the circular letter, samples were kindly furnished by the following parties, below city. and numbered as 1. Lithonia Georgia Granite, John Regan, contractor, 2. West Virginia Brick Co., Charleston, W. Va., H. C. Bruce, President. 3. The Diamond Brick and Terra Cotta Co., Kansas City, Mo. 4. The Pittsburg Sewer Pipe and Fire Clay Co., New Brighton, Pa. Ohio. 5. Canton Brick Co. red granite street pavers, Canton, 5 BRICK FOR STREET PAVEMENTS. 6. The Royal Brick Co. iron rock pavers, Canton, 0. 7. Purington Paving Brick Co., Galesburg, 111. 8. The United States Fire Clay Co., New Lisbon, Ohio M. R. Coney, agent. 9. The Middleport Granite Brick Co. Hallwood Block, Middleport, Ohio. Ohio. 10. L. B. Townsend Co. Townsend Paver, Zanesville, 11. The Brazil Paving Block, Brazil, Ind., L. H...