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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Concrete is composed of broken stone or gravel or both, sand, cement, and water, mixed under certain circumstances in absolutely definite proportions, so as to obtain a conglomeration which experiments, conducted principally by Government engineers, have shown ultimately to produce the best possible results; and doubtless in all works this practice would be followed, if in works paid for by private individuals or companies, we had the money and time at our disposal. But in works of this class we must aim to attain as near perfection as practicable, but be satisfied with what is good enough for the purpose in view, with the least possible cost in time and money, consistent with securing a permanent, strong, safe, and durable structure. We will first, however, explain the process of making concrete in accordance with the requirements of the Government engineers. 23. Gen. Q. A. Gillmore's treatise on Limes, Hydraulic Cements, and Mortars is assumed to be high authority, ?a book which contains valuable and interesting information. On page 226, paragraph 450, we find: The concrete was prepared by first spreading out the gravel on a platform of rough boards, in a layer from eight to twelve inches thick, the smaller pebbles at the bottom and the larger on top, and afterwards spreading the mortar over it as uniformly as possible. The materials were then mixed by four men, two with shovels and two with hoes; the former facing each other and always working from the outside to the centre, then stepping back and recommencing in the same way, and thus continuing the operation until the whole mass was turned. The men with hoes worked each in conjunction with a shoveller, and were required to rub well into the mortar each shovelful as it was turned and spread, or rather scattered on the pl...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217434263
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 132
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217434266
  • Publisher Date: 08 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 249 gr


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