Road Making and Maintenance: A Practical Treatise for Engineers, Surveyors, and OthersC. Griffin, Limited, 1900 - 440 pages |
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18 inches adopted amount applied arch arrangement asphalte Aveling & Porter average basalt blasting blasting gelatine blocks bore-hole breaking machine brick bridges broken carriageway carried cement cent centre Clee Hill coat of metalling concrete considerable consolidated construction cost cubic yards cutting cylinder depth detonators diameter direction distance districts drains drill-bit effect embankment employed engine expenditure explosive feet fixed foundation gradients granite gravel ground hard haulage Hirnant holes hornblende horses inches iron jaws joints labour laid limestone macadam manual labour material means method mile nature necessary obtained operations pavement paving pipes placed quantity quarry reduced repairs road metal road surface roadway rock drill roller rolling sand scarifying screen shaft shot-holes shown in fig side spandril spread square yard stone-breaking machine stones streets sufficient suitable syenite thickness tons traction varying vehicles wear weight wheel traffic width wood
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Page 1 - Engineer, being the art of directing the Great Sources of Power in Nature for the use and convenience of man...
Page 10 - They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer ; what therefore must it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage in the most intolerable manner.
Page 248 - All the irregularities of the upper part of the said pavement are to be broken off by the hammer, and all the interstices to be filled with stone chips, firmly wedged or packed by hand with a light hammer, so that when the whole pavement is finished, there shall be a convexity of four inches in the breadth of fifteen feet from the centre.
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Page 248 - ... from the centre to the sides of it ; and the whole of the materials are to be covered with a binding of an inch and a half in depth of good gravel, free from clay or earth.
Page 32 - ABG are similar. And as the three sides of the former are proportional to the three forces by which the carriage is...
Page 361 - The layer shall be 2 inches in thickness when compacted to serve as a bed for the bricks, which will be laid directly upon and imbedded in it, with close end and side joints. 2. The bricks or blocks must be specially...
Page 10 - ... to travel this terrible country to avoid it as they would the devil ; for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with rutts which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer...
Page 22 - ... necessary, shores and tunnels of substantial masonry, with which all the water arising from springs or falling in rain is instantly carried off; the great care with which a sufficient foundation is established for the road, and the quality, solidity, and disposition of the materials that are put upon it, are matters quite new in the system of roadmaking in these countries.
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