Building construction and superintendence, by F.E. Kidder ... (1896)
Kidder, Frank E. (Frank Eugene), 1859-1905 · New York, W.T. Comstock · leaf 60
ot. Only in a fewplaces over mud holes were pile foundations used. FO UN DA TIONS ON COMPRESSIBLE SOILS. 5? The platform foundations consisted of 3-inch pine or hemlockplanks, with blocking (transverse beams) on top, to distribute thepressure from the loads uniformly over all the planks and to… … Fig. 21. Fig. 21 shows the general arrangement of the blocking under theposts. MASONRY WELLS, 62. When it is necessary to support very heavy buildings on com-pressible or filled soil, where piles or spread footings cannot be used,or are not considered desirable, wells of masonry, sunk to bed rod?or…
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