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Flour mill construction at Leith
Description of use of sliding shuttering in construction of building, which included slide for beam-and-column configuration combined with vertical perimeter walls; heavy-duty Swedish jacks of 22-ton capacity and hydraulic system with automatic control were used; building is 150×50 ft in plan, and 200 ft high; maximum quantities of materials per foot of lift in first three slides were 40 cwt of reinforcing steel and 15 cu yd of concrete; sliding rate was 6 to 8 in./hr; in fourth slide quantities were 55 cu yd of concrete per foot lift when sliding through beams, and 20 cu yd between beams; about 200 tons of reinforcing steel were placed during fourth slide.
Flour mill construction at Leith
Description of use of sliding shuttering in construction of building, which included slide for beam-and-column configuration combined with vertical perimeter walls; heavy-duty Swedish jacks of 22-ton capacity and hydraulic system with automatic control were used; building is 150×50 ft in plan, and 200 ft high; maximum quantities of materials per foot of lift in first three slides were 40 cwt of reinforcing steel and 15 cu yd of concrete; sliding rate was 6 to 8 in./hr; in fourth slide quantities were 55 cu yd of concrete per foot lift when sliding through beams, and 20 cu yd between beams; about 200 tons of reinforcing steel were placed during fourth slide.
Flour mill construction at Leith
Engineer
Engineer ; 223
1967
3 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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