... considered, but in less detail than the consolidation tests. A second difficulty involved in the use of samples is that in theprocess of sampling the condition of the soil is altered from that at which it existed in the ground. The degree of disturbance depends a good deal on the technique of sampling...

... PUMPING STEELWORK PIPES DIVERSION ROADS SUPPORTS ROOFS PIERS SURFACES BRICKWORK SPANS GIRDERS ERECTION JOISTS TRESTLES RETAINING STRUCTURES SETTLEMENT REINFORCED LONGITUDINAL CONSTRUCTION TEMPORARY ALTERATIONS CHANGEOVERS ALDGATE EAST ALDGATE LONDON ALDGATE EAST UK...

.... Having indicated the problems, the Author proceeded to set out the obstacles, each of which presented many problem requiring the closest consideration. The principal concern of railway engineers when carrying out alterations to permanent way and stations was as a rule more or less confined...

...L R WENTHOLT © Thomas Telford and ICE 1936 SHIPS CANALS UTILISATION DRAINAGE USE VELOCITY CURRENTS INFLOW SPILLWAYS LOCKS INLETS WATERWAYS NAVIGATION VESSELS DISCHARGES SAND WEIRS PUMPS PLANT PUMPING TESTS MODELS HYDRAULIC LABORATORIES SILLS STRUCTURES ALTERATIONS...

... in EnglandT. he Paper gave examples of extensive alterations which had had to be made in the design of structures as the result of model-experiments. Continental engineers were perhaps more theoretically inclined than English ones ; nevertheless, the Delft laboratory often carried out elaborate model-tests...