Engineering and Contracting . bout half full. On Feb. 28it was warm enough to melt the ice frozenover the top sufficiently to allow it to slidedown. This immense body of ice struck thesurface of the water with sufficient force toburst the pipe wide open. In the same year, 1893, the water companyset to work to replace this standpipe with atower that they figured would be practicallyeverlasting. .\ photograph of this tower isshown in Fig. 1. This tower was not builtvery long when it began to show verticalcracks extending from the first window fromthe ground to the second, which is on a levelwith
Engineering and Contracting . bout half full. On Feb. 28it was warm enough to melt the ice frozenover the top sufficiently to allow it to slidedown. This immense body of ice struck thesurface of the water with sufficient force toburst the pipe wide open. In the same year, 1893, the water companyset to work to replace this standpipe with atower that they figured would be practicallyeverlasting. .\ photograph of this tower isshown in Fig. 1. This tower was not builtvery long when it began to show verticalcracks extending from the first window fromthe ground to the second, which is on a levelwith the steel tank inclosed. This tower costin the neighborhood of $,000, all brick andstone work being laid in cement mortar Referring to Fig. 2, a sketch of section oftower shown in Fig 1, it will be noticed thatthe edge of the steel tank is 2 ft. from the point of greatest bulge. The tank was kepthalf full of water so as to lighten the load asmuch as possible. Observations made fromtime to time showed that even with half a. Fig. 1. Exterior View of the Brick and Steel Water Tower of the Maryville, Mo., Water Works as Built In 1893. ^cneer wall or 1 ft. .3 ins. fmm the IH-in. sup-porting wall. The support for the tank wasa hemispherical brick arch. Had this arch^een mafle a reinforced concrete slab, so thatthe resultant forces would have been vertical,these cracks would never have appeared. Im-mediately after the cracks were noticed steelliands were placed around the tower at the -.^— -ISS- 12~— steel Tank 9Brick Wall
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