The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 262
ips is their as-sumed heaviness relative to their carrying capacity. But this objection has,perhaps, been over-rated. Concrete itself is not anvthing like as heavy asiron or steel, volume for volume. In fact, the specific gravitv of concrete isin the neighborhood of 2^4. while that of iron and… … oncrele shipbuilding on on apid rate. This is a deck ardizcd in Ihis v; of Frances inland waterways has been developing at aiew of one of the concrete ships which have been stand-•d and are turne<l nut in quantity production. consideration that the thick walls of the luiU in a stone boat are not…
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