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Engineering and Contracting Volume 58

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...channel of the river crosses the site of the dam near the south end and the river bed and is partly on the ledge rock which gradually dips away from the river to the deepest place near the middle of the valley. The method adopted for constructing the corewall was to drive two walls of steel sheet piling across the valley, excavate between them meanwhile bracing the steel sheeting with timber and then fill the trench with concrete. The type of sheeting used was the Lackawanna, arch-web, 3o-lb. section. Previous to putting down the sleeted trench, a stretch of open cut, with sloped sides, was taken out with a steam shovel, giving a level path upon which to erect the frame for can No. 10 steam hammers and mounted on skids sliding on sills laid normal to the trench. Sheeting Put Down as a Wall.--In driving the piling the method used was to put the sheeting down as a wall and not as a series of individual piles. First a portable guide frame 48 ft. long made of 12xl2-in. timbers was set up over the deepest part of the trench. This frame was constructed so that it could be adjusted SOUTH END tical at the rock was found to be about 6 in. for each wall of piling, sometimes wider and sometimes narrower than the width at the top. On top of the rock the slope of the ledge surface forced the piling out of line so that the narrowest trench was 18.6 ft. and the widest was 24.4 ft. Later on with this experience to govern and for the shallower trench the width was reduced to 14 ft. Sequence of Pile Driving Operations.--A wall of 50-ft. steel piling was set up on each side of the guide-frame and driven into the ground a few feet so as to hold the toe in place. Extreme care was exercised for the first set to have the piling true and plumb. This precaution was found to be very...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781232054481
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 876
  • Spine Width: 44 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1232054488
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 1533 gr

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