Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies (1881)
Association of Engineering Societies (U.S.) · New York, [etc.] Board of Managers · leaf 206
ts high place among building materials. Some years ago we listened in this club to an interesting paper on continuous street-car rails in which the remarkable fact was explained that street-car rails can be made continuous without being damaged or torn apart by changes in temperature, as the… … bedded surface of Fig. 1. steel. Let me give you a few illustrations of the way in which plain concrete in drying separates. The figure before you shows a small concrete pier put up around the base of a wooden trestle bent. The pier being of rectangular shape, about 20 ft. long, 4 ft. thick and 6…
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