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Parisians lay egg underground
New 1000-seat amphitheater for engineering college in Paris is being built beneath campus courtyard; 108-ft diam, 36-ft-high underground chamber is egg-shaped to distribute weight over larger area in order to avoid deep foundation piers necessary because of abandoned mine tunnels under site; cellular curved floor was cast on grade out to base of concave walls; concrete anchorages were cast around rim of floor to buttress shoring supporting wall formwork.
Parisians lay egg underground
New 1000-seat amphitheater for engineering college in Paris is being built beneath campus courtyard; 108-ft diam, 36-ft-high underground chamber is egg-shaped to distribute weight over larger area in order to avoid deep foundation piers necessary because of abandoned mine tunnels under site; cellular curved floor was cast on grade out to base of concave walls; concrete anchorages were cast around rim of floor to buttress shoring supporting wall formwork.
Parisians lay egg underground
Eng News -- Rec
Engineering News-Record ; 172
1964
Article (Journal)
English
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