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Types and details of bridge construction (1904)

Skinner, Frank W. (Frank Woodward), 1858-1932 · New York, McGraw · leaf 351

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ion at each end of the aqueduct wasmade by driving a transverse line of sheet piles just beyond eachabutment. The space between the abutment and the piles wasrammed with puddle clay which extended in a thin sheet over thetop of the abutment masonry to a brick stop wall in the middleof the latter. A… … ?-Z- li ^Shezi Piles. ^^^^^^^^ Floor Joint at Abu1men+. Watertight Expansion Joint. stop and the top of the puddle to rest on the planks and form anapron. Near the end of this apron, just clear of the edge of theplanks, there is riveted to it the upper flange of a transverse builtchannel which…

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