A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Sept 26 1930 n 3376 p 383-386: General plan consisted in building open approaches, portal buildings for housing of ventilating apparatus on each end and 1000 ft. of tube itself on Oakland side and to close intervening space between and under estuary with precast reinforced-concrete tubes floated and sunk in place and joined together under water with tremie concrete; design and construction. Oct 10 1930 n 3378 p 449-451: Details of tube units; one unit involved pouring of 2700 cu. yd. of concrete, placing 300 tons of steel, waterproofing, moving forms, cleaning up, plugging ends and floating out; inside crown forms and roadway forms worked on tracks were moved from one tube into next; effect of seismic disturbance on tube; general particulars.
Sept 26 1930 n 3376 p 383-386: General plan consisted in building open approaches, portal buildings for housing of ventilating apparatus on each end and 1000 ft. of tube itself on Oakland side and to close intervening space between and under estuary with precast reinforced-concrete tubes floated and sunk in place and joined together under water with tremie concrete; design and construction. Oct 10 1930 n 3378 p 449-451: Details of tube units; one unit involved pouring of 2700 cu. yd. of concrete, placing 300 tons of steel, waterproofing, moving forms, cleaning up, plugging ends and floating out; inside crown forms and roadway forms worked on tracks were moved from one tube into next; effect of seismic disturbance on tube; general particulars.
The Oakland-Alameda estuary tube
Engineering
Baker, A.R. (author)
Engineering ; 130
1930
57 Figs. Partly on Supp. plates
Article (Journal)
English
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Oakland-Alameda estuary subway
| Engineering Index Backfile | 1926
Concrete on the Oakland-Alameda estuary tube
| Engineering Index Backfile | 1927
| Engineering Index Backfile | 1928
| Engineering Index Backfile | 1926