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Prestressed concrete runway at London airport
Prestressed concrete taxi-track, 355 ft long and 120 ft wide, composed of precast unreinforced concrete slabs most of which are 2 ft 11 in. square and 6 1/2 in. thick; transverse cables placed in grooves at joints between precast slabs; each cable comprises thirty 0.2-in. hard drawn steel wires wrapped in bitumen coated paper; tensile strength of wires is 90 to 100 tons per sq in.
Prestressed concrete runway at London airport
Prestressed concrete taxi-track, 355 ft long and 120 ft wide, composed of precast unreinforced concrete slabs most of which are 2 ft 11 in. square and 6 1/2 in. thick; transverse cables placed in grooves at joints between precast slabs; each cable comprises thirty 0.2-in. hard drawn steel wires wrapped in bitumen coated paper; tensile strength of wires is 90 to 100 tons per sq in.
Prestressed concrete runway at London airport
Concrete Constr Eng
1952
4 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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Engineering Index Backfile | 1953
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Engineering Index Backfile | 1953