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Bay bridge foundations built with unique domed caissons
Sinking of reinforced-concrete caissons for West Channel piers of San Francisco-Oakland Bridge, to max depth of 220 ft; improvement in open-dredging process by maintaining domes over well tops to permit control by compressed air during sinking; domes raised by adding sections to wells as sinking advances; design of caissons; patent situation.
Bay bridge foundations built with unique domed caissons
Sinking of reinforced-concrete caissons for West Channel piers of San Francisco-Oakland Bridge, to max depth of 220 ft; improvement in open-dredging process by maintaining domes over well tops to permit control by compressed air during sinking; domes raised by adding sections to wells as sinking advances; design of caissons; patent situation.
Bay bridge foundations built with unique domed caissons
Eng News-Rec
Purcell, C.H. (author) / Andrew, C.E. (author) / Woodruff, G.B. (author)
Engineering News-Record ; 112
1934
6 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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