A treatise on concrete, plain and reinforced : materials, construction, and design of concrete and reinforced concrete; 2nd ed. . onstruct the bodyof the pier of rubble concrete with a 6 to 9-inchfacing of richer concrete. In answer to in-quiries, Mr. Murphy wrote the authors in 1904:The concrete piers erected in this Provincefor the last eighteen or twenty years have with-stood the action of the weather, and fulfilledall that was claimed for them in my paper,read before the International Congress in erection of such piers and abutments isnow in almost universal application in Canada.
A treatise on concrete, plain and reinforced : materials, construction, and design of concrete and reinforced concrete; 2nd ed. . onstruct the bodyof the pier of rubble concrete with a 6 to 9-inchfacing of richer concrete. In answer to in-quiries, Mr. Murphy wrote the authors in 1904:The concrete piers erected in this Provincefor the last eighteen or twenty years have with-stood the action of the weather, and fulfilledall that was claimed for them in my paper,read before the International Congress in erection of such piers and abutments isnow in almost universal application in Canada. In the Kansas City flood of 1903, the piersof solid concrete, although located where theywere struck by all the heavy debris whichtotally destroyed many of the stone masonrystructures of the same size, remained practi-cally uninjured. In 1900 a Committee of the Association ofRailway Superintendents of Bridges and Build-ingsf made the following inquiry: For whatclasses of structures do you use Portland ce- *Bridge Substructure and Foundations in Nova Scotia,Transactions American Society of Civil Engineers, , p. ^ ^;^^PH^^ i i c5; M P i- « ?3*^-^^.-iii:i 2 < o CDU-
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