..., and to arrange for continuous pouring of the monolithsbetween these joints. The horizontal joint a t about El. 157 is provided with offsets and notches so as to secure a satisfactory resistance of the buttress to shearing. Both the slabs and buttressesare reinforced, andthe percentage of the volume...

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.... This storage is obtained by a dam 2,114 feet long on the crest, and approximately 145 feet high from the bed of the stream tocrest-level. The dam is of rolled earth fill, with a reinforced-concrete core- wall. Underground, t,he corewall is 4 feethick, the thickness beingfixed by the minimum width of trench...

... England, hauled 200 or 300 miles from Singapore or Penang, transhipped a t the collecting station a t Enggor, and then hauled 13 miles by barge or motor-lorry, before being put intostore at the dam. He believed that the average weight of reinforcement over the whole of the workwas about 5 Ibs. per cubic...

... by a 180 DEAN ON THE CONSTRUCTION O F SUBMERGIBLE [Minutes of record flood in 1926, and a reinforced-concrete span of67 feet was substituted for three of the arches in the centre which had been washed away andthree additionalreinforced-concretespans, each of 44 feet, were added at theleft bank where...

... of quay per annum.He would like toasktheAuthor two questions in connection with the oil jetty. Firstly, what was thefree space between the back of the independent fenders and piles and the reinforced-concrete structures ; in other words, how much compression of the fenders was permitted ? The second...

... dredging that channel lumps of " Blackwall rock " up t o 10tons in weight had been met with. There was no doubt that some of the reinforced-concrete piles hadstruck that material, particularly at the north-west corner of the piled area. But the " Blackwall rock " was very patchy, and between the patches...

... on the flood. Fromthe point of view of berthing ships the conditions appeared to be ideal for a reinforced-concrete jetty, since vessels would normally come alongside on the rising tide, and, unless there was a strong gale from a southerly quarter,there would be little likelihood that vessels would bump...

... reinforcement of the tunnel-lining. Before the work a t Sydney was commenced, full particulars of the work on the Gatskill aqueduct, includingadetailedaccount of the method of grouting, had been given. If the lessons taught by the Catskill experience had been made use of, he thought the Sydney tunnel would...

... miles it had been drilled through solid rock, and practicallynowater had been encountered, while only the short lengt'h of 280 feet had required to be reinforced with cast-iron segments. The tunnel had been driven from anumber of faces, there having been eleven points of final contact between those...

..., as it must 2 Nr. TdmPle. Mr. F. C. TEMPLEobserved that the corrosion in the Cairo main collector wasveryinteresting, because a t presentnoinformation seemed to be available about similar corrosion in sewers in India. An 18-inch reinforced-concrete pipe (Humeprocess) sewer, which was untouched by sewage, had...

... a tunnel 120 yards long. The Ashop weir has a height of 12 feet above the river-bed, and a total crest-length of 609 feet. The main watercourse, which has a capacity of217 G U S ~ C S(117 million gallons per diem), and into which waterentersthrough a screen of reinforced-concrete bars at thesouth-west...

... for the unloading of coal and the loading of cement in both sacks and casks, and its design and execution may be of interest on account not so much of its size but rather of special features embodying a certainamount of pioneer work. Among these features the following may be mentioned. (1) The reinforced-concrete...

..., deflects under load, but the deflection disappears when the load is removed, which phenomenon is used as a test that the structurehas not been stressed beyond t,he elastic limit, and to prove the safety of the structure. Engineers with an imperfecut nderstanding of concrete and reinforced concrete...