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260 Top of Mooring and Cluster Piles. Ay oeGee se 3- 4" /6 au Ss 241 Beams " = Scere ts © 6'%/2" Kyo Ribbing hock a Screw 2"*%6" Bands 2*0" C. tol. "S" Band 1 Bell SECTION OF OuTER END oF Pier, SHoW- ING CONCRETE PILE IN PLACE. -form remains on the pile, in time rot- ting away. In this manner a_ solid permanent concrete pile continuous to hard pan is obtained. The piles are spaced on 15-ft. centers lengthwise of the dock and on 13-ft. 4-in. centers across the dock, giving one pile for each 200 sq. ft. of floor. Heavy knee braces connected to the superstructure are fitted to the tops of the piles, giv- ing lateral stiffness. A series of I-beams is laid on the THe Marine REVIEW tops of the piles. Twenty-four-in. con- tinuous 80-lb. beams are laid across the dock, on every row of piles, par- July, 1910 broad team-way in the center paved with vitrified paving brick. The walls of ordinary reinforced concrete are FILLING INSHORE PILE allél: to: the shore, or 15) ft: center to center. Eighteen-in., spaced 6 ft) 8m. center to center, are laid parallel to the long axis of the dock intercostal with the 24-in. beams. These beams, thoroughly bedded in concrete for protection against the elements, carry the floor, which con- 55-1b,. [-beams, ForMS WITH CONCRETE. construction, the roof being carried in- dependently by steel columns built of plate ard angles or consisting of single channels. The wall reinforcement con- sists of 7/16-in. rods spaced 18 in. hori- zontally and vertically. The re'nforced concrete roof is by steel trusses spaced 30 ft. apart. supported IPIER ry "\CYLIND CYLINDER Forms sists of reinforced concrete slabs, pro- tected by an asphalt wearing surface on the sides of the: pier and with a IN CONSTRUCTION. Twenty rolling steel doors in each side of the warehouse and two on each end are provided. The doors are 20