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WHARVES AND PIERS THEIR DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, AND EQUIPMENT BT
CARLETON GREENE, A. B., C. E. MEMBEH AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL
ENGINEERS FIRST EDITION SECOND IMPRESSION McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY,
INC. 239 WEST 39TH STREET, NEW YORK LONDON HILT, PUBLISHING CO,
LTD. 6 8 BOUVERIE ST, E C 1917 PREFACE THIS book has been written
in response to an editorial in one of the engineering journals
calling attention to the lack of American books on the subject of
Wharves and Piers. In its preparation the author has therefore
endeavored to present a treatise on modern American practice in the
de sign and construction of wharves, piers, pier-sheds and their
equipment, including machinery for handling miscellaneous package
freight. The subject of pile driving has not been gone into deeply
as it has been treated at length in Jacoby and Davis recent work on
Foundations of Bridges and Buildings. It is the writers opinion
that there is a tendency at the present time to slight the
advantages of timber construction for wharves and to overestimate
those of reinforced con crete. As the principles and methods
requisite for dura bility in wooden wharf construction have, as far
as the writer knows, not been set forth in book form they have been
given particular attention in this volume. While most of the
descriptions and illustrations of ex isting structures have
necessarily been collected from the technical press, for which no
originality is claimed, an attempt has been made to emphasize, in
describing such structures, the particular conditions which had to
be pro vided for in the design, the methods used for fulfilling the
special requirements and, to some extent, the reasons why
particular types and details wereadopted. It is believed that such
descriptions will aid designers in solving prob lems which embrace
similar conditions. viii PREFACE For information in regard to
European practice in the construction of wharves and piers the
reader is referred to Seehafenbau by F. W. Schulze Berlin, Ernst
Sohn 1913, and for further information in regard to the New York
practice in freight handling to the Report on the Mechanical
Equipment of New York Harbor by B. F. Cresson, Jr., and Chas. W.
Stamford and to other reports published by the Department of Docks.
In Fowlers Subaqueous Foundations may be found examples of the
wooden piers of the Pacific Coast and in the latest edition of
Merrimans American Civil Engineers Pocket Book there is much
valuable information in condensed form. Acknowledgments arc due to
Mr. Charles W. Staniford, Chief Engineer of the Department of
Docks, New York, N. Y., and to the other officials of that
department for photographs, drawings and information to Mr. S. W.
Hoag, Jr, for permission to reprint portions of his paper on New
York docks, published in the proceedings of The Municipal Engineers
of New York, to Engineering News, Engineer ing Record, Engineering
Contracting and International Marine Engineering, also to the
General Electric Co.. Lidgerwood Mfg. Co., Brown Portable Elevator
Co., J. Edward Ogden Co., American Engineering Co. and others for
illustrations. C G NJW YORK, January, 1917 CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE .
... vn CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION DEFINITIONS i REQUIREMENTS 2 TYPES .
3 MATERIALS OF CONSTRUCTION 4 Timber 4 Wood Preservatives 9
Concrete 1 1 Concrete Pile 13 Stone Masonry 14 Steel 14 Cast Iron
IQ Riprap 17 Concrete vs Timber 17 CHAPTER II PRIMARY PRINCIPLES
OFDESIGN COMMERCIAL LU-E 19 GROWTH OF SHIPS 22 MARGINAL WHARVES vs
PIERS 23 DIMENSIONS OF WHARVES 24 LIVE LOADS 26 TIDAL PRISM 26
CHAPTER III - DETAILS OF TIMBER CONSTRUCTION PILES AND PILE DRIVING
28 Pile Formulae 28 Steam vs Drop Hammers 29 Lagged Pile 29
Floating Drivers 29 Inclined Drivers 30 Pile Follower 31 LATERAL
SUPPORT FOR PILES 31 TEST PILES AND BORINGS 32 DETAILS OF
CONSTRUCTION 33 IRON AND WOOD FASTENINGS 40 SEWERS IN PIERS 42 x
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VITRUVIUS ON ARCHITECTURE EDITED FROM THE HARLEIAN MANUSCRIPT 2767
AI TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY FRANK GRANGER, D. Lrr., AJLLB. A.
PROFESSOR IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, NOTTINGHAM IN TWO VOLUMES I
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON WILLIAM
HEINEMANN LTD MCMLV CONTENTS PAQK PREFACE vii INTRODUCTION
VITRUVIUS AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE WEST ...... ix HISTORY OF THE
MSS. OF VITRUVIUS . X i THE EARLIEST EDITIONS OF VITRUVIUS . XXi
THE SCHOLIA OF THE MSS. . . . XXV - THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE MSS. .
. XXVli THE LANGUAGE OF VITRUVIUS . . . XXViii BIBLIOGRAPHY THE
MSS. . . . . . . XXXli EDITIONS ...... xxxiii TRANSLATIONS XXXiii
THE CHIEF CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STUDY OF VITRUVIUS ..... xxxiv BOOKS
OF GENERAL REFERENCE . . XXXVi TEXT AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION BOOK I.
ARCHITECTURAL PRINCIPLES . 1 BOOK II. EVOLUTION OF BUILDING USE OF
MATERIALS . . . . 71 BOOK III. IONIC TEMPLES . . . 151 BOOK IV.
DORIC AND CORINTHIAN TEMPLES 199 BOOK V. PUBLIC BUILDINGS I
THEATRES AND MUSIC, BATHS, HARBOURS . 249 INDEX OF ARCHITECTURAL
TERMS 319 CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS THE CAPITOL DOUGGA . Frontispiece
PLATE A. WINDS AND DIRECTION OF STREETS at end PLATE B. PLANS OF
TEMPLES . . . PLATE C. IONIC ORDER . . . . PLATE 0. CORINTHIAN
ORDER see Frontispiece PLATE E. DORIC ORDER . . . at end PLATE F.
MUSICAL SCALES ., ., PLATE O. THEATRE . . . . . PLATE H. PLAN OF
STABIAN BATHS, POMPEII . vi PREFACE THIS edition has been based
upon the oldest MS. of Vitruvius, the Harleian 2767 of the British
Museum, probably of the eighth century, and from the Saxon
scriptorium of Northumbria in which the Codex Amiatinus was
written. The Latin closely resembles that of the workshop and the
street. In my translation I havesought to retain the vividness and
accuracy of the original, and have not sought a smoothness of
rendering which would become a more polished style. The reader, it
is possible, may discern the genial figure of Vitruvius through his
utterances. In a technical treatise the risks of the translator are
many. The help of Dr. House has rendered them less formidable, but
he is not responsible for the errors which have survived revision.
The introduction has been limited to such con siderations as may
enable the layman to enter into the mysteries of the craft, and the
general reader to follow the stages by which the successive
accretions to the text have been removed. The section upon language
indicates some of the relations of Vitruvius to Old Latin
generally. My examination of fourteen MSS. has been rendered
possible by the courtesy of the Directors of the MSS. Libraries at
the British Museum, the Vatican, the Escorial, the Bibliotheque
Nationale vii PREFACE at Paris, the Bodleian, St. Johns College,
Oxford, and Eton College. A word of special thanks is due to his
Excellency the Spanish Ambassador to London, his Eminence the
Cardinal Merry del Val and the Secretary of the British Embassy at
Paris, for their assistance. Mr. Paul Gray, M. A., of this College,
has given me valuable help in preparing the MS. for the press.
FRANK GRANGER. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, NOTTINGHAM, September, 1929.
viii INTRODUCTION VlTRUVIUS AND THE ARCHITECTURE OP THE WEST THE
history of architectural literature is taken by Vitruvius to begin
with the theatre of Dionysus at Athens. 1 In earlier times the
spectators were accommodated upon wooden benches. According to one
account, 2 in the year 500 B. C. or thereabouts, thescaffolding
collapsed, and in consequence a beginning was made towards a
permanent stone structure. The elaborate stage settings of
Aeschylus reached their culmination at the performance of the
Agamemnon and its associated plays in 458. According to Suidas, 3
the collapse of the scaffolding, which occurred at a performance of
one of Aeschylus dramas, led to the exile of the poet in Sicily,
where he died in 456. In that case the permanent con struction of
the theatre would begin in the Periclean age some time between 458
and 456...
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