 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1870 - 742 pages
...direction of the axis of the road break joints. In some cases the blocks are so laid that the joints make an angle of 45° with the axis of the roadway, one set being continuous, the other breaking joints with them. By this arrangement of the joints, it is said... | |
 | William Mitchell Gillespie - 1871 - 494 pages
...directly the shocks of the wheels, and that the stones thus become convex. To prevent this, and F'g- 112. to secure equal wear, they should be laid so...continuous, but the others should break joints, as in Fig. 1 !•_'. Oblong stones are preferred by the French engineers, with their upper surfaces nine inches... | |
 | William Mitchell Gillespie - 1871 - 488 pages
...directly the shocks of the wheels, and that the stones thus become convex. To prevent this, and F'g- 112to secure equal wear, they should be laid so that the...continuous, but the others should break joints, as in Fig. 1 12. Oblong stones are preferred by the French engineers, with their upper surfaces nine inches by... | |
 | William Mitchell Gillespie - 1871 - 888 pages
...directly the shocks of the wheels, and that the stones thus become convex. To prevent this, and F'g- 112to secure equal wear, they should be laid so that the...the axis of the roadway. One set of joints may be continugus, but the others 'should break joints, as in Fig. 112. Oblong stones are preferred by the... | |
 | William Mitchell Gillespie - 1872 - 552 pages
...directly the shocks of the wheels, and that the stones thus become convex. To prevent this, and F'g- 112to secure equal wear, they should be laid so that the...cross the road obliquely, making an angle of 45° witli the axis of the roadway. One set of joints may be continuous, but the others should break joints,... | |
 | Dennis Hart Mahan - 1873 - 560 pages
...considerable, that the mortar would soon be crushed and washed out the blocks are so laid that the joints make an angle of 45° with the axis of the roadway, one set being continuous, the other breaking joints with them. By this arrangement of the joints, it is said... | |
 | Junius Brutus Wheeler - 1876 - 504 pages
...direction of the axis of the road break join's. In some cases the blocks are so laid that the joints make an angle of 45° with the axis of the roadway, one set being continuous, the other set breaking joints. By this arrangement of the joints, the wear upon the... | |
 | Dennis Hart Mahan - 1877 - 642 pages
...direction of the axis of the road break joints. In some cases the blocks are so laid that the joints make an angle of 45° with the axis of the roadway, one set being continuous, the other breaking joints with them. By this arrangement of the t" >ints, it is said... | |
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... with their joints parallel and perpendicular to the direction of the road, they wear away most rapidly upon the edges which run across the road, since these receive most directly the shocks of the wheels, and that the stones thus become convex. To... 
