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Identifier: steampowerplan01meye (find matches)
Title: Steam power plants, their design and construction
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Meyer, Henry Coddington, 1870-
Subjects: Steam power-plants
Publisher: New York, McGraw
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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nd also serve to secure it in place more strongly as themortar works into them when the brick is laid. The radial brickthat have been used to a considerable extent by the Custodis andHeinicke companies in Germany are much stronger and more dur-able than common brick. Another feature in their favor is thatthey are considerably larger than common brick and less laboris required in laying them. Masonry Chimney Foundations.—These should be of such anarea that the load per square foot does not exceed one ton persquare foot on soft clay; two tons per square foot on stiff clay,compact sand, loam, etc. These loads are exceeded in buildingsbut they should not be in chimneys unless solid rock underlies thefoundation. The rock should be dressed off into steps with ver-tical sides so there will be no tendency to slide. With very largemasonry chimneys and in fact with chimneys of moderate size insoil of low bearing power, pile foundations are frequently re- STEAM. POWER PLANTS. 143 kjwishd Stzet
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