A Treatise on Civil EngineeringJ. Wiley & Son, 1873 - 513 pages |
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... Action of Tides .. 855-856 . Roadsteads ... 857-863 . Harbors . 864-866 . Quays . 867. Dikes .. 868. Groins .. 869. Sea - walls 504 506 . 508 . 511 512 513 513 ELEMENTARY COURSE OF CIVIL ENGINEERING . CHAPTER I. BUILDING MATERIALS ...
... Action of Tides .. 855-856 . Roadsteads ... 857-863 . Harbors . 864-866 . Quays . 867. Dikes .. 868. Groins .. 869. Sea - walls 504 506 . 508 . 511 512 513 513 ELEMENTARY COURSE OF CIVIL ENGINEERING . CHAPTER I. BUILDING MATERIALS ...
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... action of atmospheric changes , and other causes of destructibility . I. STONE . 3. The term Stone , or Rock , is applied to any aggregation of several mineral substances . Stones , for the convenience of description , may be arranged ...
... action of atmospheric changes , and other causes of destructibility . I. STONE . 3. The term Stone , or Rock , is applied to any aggregation of several mineral substances . Stones , for the convenience of description , may be arranged ...
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... action of salt water . 10. Granite and Gneiss . The constituents of these two stones are the same , being a granular aggregation of quartz , feldspar , and mica , in variable proportions . They differ only in their structure - gneiss ...
... action of salt water . 10. Granite and Gneiss . The constituents of these two stones are the same , being a granular aggregation of quartz , feldspar , and mica , in variable proportions . They differ only in their structure - gneiss ...
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... action of the weather . Sand - stone is used very extensively as a building stone , for flagging , for road materials , and some of its varieties furnish an excellent fire - stone . Most of the varieties of sand - stone yield readily ...
... action of the weather . Sand - stone is used very extensively as a building stone , for flagging , for road materials , and some of its varieties furnish an excellent fire - stone . Most of the varieties of sand - stone yield readily ...
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... action of fresh and salt water . The wear of stone from ordinary exposure is very variable , depending , not only upon the texture and constituent elements of the stone , but also upon the locality and position it may oc- cupy in a ...
... action of fresh and salt water . The wear of stone from ordinary exposure is very variable , depending , not only upon the texture and constituent elements of the stone , but also upon the locality and position it may oc- cupy in a ...
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Page 136 - ... elasticity ; and judging from its slow increase afterwards, I was persuaded that it had not come on by a sudden change, but had existed, though in a less degree, from a very early period.
Page 419 - ... long. The fascines are laid in alternate layers crosswise and lengthwise, and the layers are either connected by pickets, or else the withes, with which the fascines are bound, are cut to allow the brushwood to form a uniform and compact bed. This method of securing a good bed for structures on a weak wet soil has been long practised in Holland, and experience has fully tested its excellence.
Page 175 - For the coping and top courses of a wall, the same objections do not apply to excess in length : but this excess may, on the contrary, prove favorable ; because the number of top joints being thus diminished, the mass beneath the coping will be better protected, being exposed only at the joints, which cannot be made water-tight, owing to the mortar being crushed by the expansion of the blocks in warm weather, and, when they contract, being washed out by the rain.