Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Harbours and docks : their physical features, history, construction, equipment and maintenance with statistics as to their commercial development
Professor of civil engineering at University College London, Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1839–1907) drew on considerable practical experience, having worked most notably on London's East and West India docks. The present work was first published in two volumes in 1885. This reissue combines in one volume the text and the plates, including plans and maps of important examples. The topics discussed include natural and artificial harbours; the impact of waves, tides and currents; and general principles of construction. Furthering Vernon-Harcourt's aim to educate readers on both the theory and practice of hydraulic engineering, the work features case studies on specific projects (including their origins and condition at that time), shedding much light on the history and operation of infrastructure that proved essential for the development of modern trade. Of related interest, Thomas Stevenson's The Design and Construction of Harbours (second edition, 1874) is also reissued in this series
Preface -- Part I. Harbours. 1. Preliminary considerations ; 2. Waves ; 3. Tides, currents, and changes in coasts ; 4. Forms of harbours ; 5. Jetties and breakwaters ; 6. Breakwaters formed of a mound and superstructure ; 7. Upright-wall breakwaters ; 8. Jetty harbours with parallel jetties ; 9. Harbours with converging jetties ; 10. Harbours protected by rubble mound breakwaters ; 11. Harbours protected by rubble and concrete-block mound breakwaters ; 12. Mediterranean harbours with slight superstructures ; 13. Harbours protected by a rubble mound ; 14. Harbours protected by sorted rubble and concrete-block mounds ; 15. Harbours protected by a rubble mound, and a superstructure ; 16. Harbours sheltered by upright-wall breakwaters ; 17. Harbours on sandy coasts ; 18. Lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and removal of sunken rocks -- Part II. Docks. 19. Sites and preliminary works for docks ; 20. Dock walls, pitched slopes, and jetties ; 21. Entrances and locks, dock-gates, caissons, graving docks, movable bridges ; 22. Various works and appliances for docks ; 23. Descriptions of docks ; 24. Descriptions of docks (cont.) ; 25. Descriptions of docks (cont.) ; 26. Government dockyards ; 27. Foreign docks ; 28. Foreign docks and river quays -- Appendices 1-7 -- Index
Harbours and docks : their physical features, history, construction, equipment and maintenance with statistics as to their commercial development
Professor of civil engineering at University College London, Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1839–1907) drew on considerable practical experience, having worked most notably on London's East and West India docks. The present work was first published in two volumes in 1885. This reissue combines in one volume the text and the plates, including plans and maps of important examples. The topics discussed include natural and artificial harbours; the impact of waves, tides and currents; and general principles of construction. Furthering Vernon-Harcourt's aim to educate readers on both the theory and practice of hydraulic engineering, the work features case studies on specific projects (including their origins and condition at that time), shedding much light on the history and operation of infrastructure that proved essential for the development of modern trade. Of related interest, Thomas Stevenson's The Design and Construction of Harbours (second edition, 1874) is also reissued in this series
Preface -- Part I. Harbours. 1. Preliminary considerations ; 2. Waves ; 3. Tides, currents, and changes in coasts ; 4. Forms of harbours ; 5. Jetties and breakwaters ; 6. Breakwaters formed of a mound and superstructure ; 7. Upright-wall breakwaters ; 8. Jetty harbours with parallel jetties ; 9. Harbours with converging jetties ; 10. Harbours protected by rubble mound breakwaters ; 11. Harbours protected by rubble and concrete-block mound breakwaters ; 12. Mediterranean harbours with slight superstructures ; 13. Harbours protected by a rubble mound ; 14. Harbours protected by sorted rubble and concrete-block mounds ; 15. Harbours protected by a rubble mound, and a superstructure ; 16. Harbours sheltered by upright-wall breakwaters ; 17. Harbours on sandy coasts ; 18. Lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and removal of sunken rocks -- Part II. Docks. 19. Sites and preliminary works for docks ; 20. Dock walls, pitched slopes, and jetties ; 21. Entrances and locks, dock-gates, caissons, graving docks, movable bridges ; 22. Various works and appliances for docks ; 23. Descriptions of docks ; 24. Descriptions of docks (cont.) ; 25. Descriptions of docks (cont.) ; 26. Government dockyards ; 27. Foreign docks ; 28. Foreign docks and river quays -- Appendices 1-7 -- Index
Harbours and docks : their physical features, history, construction, equipment and maintenance with statistics as to their commercial development
Harbours & Docks
Vernon-Harcourt, Leveson Francis (Autor:in)
1885
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 714 pages)
digital, PDF file(s)
Includes index
Originally published in 1885
Buch
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
DDC:
627
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