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Improvement of facilities of port of Tunis-la Goulette
Description of new type quay, so-called open-caisson buttressed quay based on principle of buttressed dam and involving use of inclined thrust face favoring structure's stability; 360 m long quay is constituted by 11 reinforced concrete caissons 30 m long 13 m high having trapezoidal cross section, founded at -12.7 m and topped by 100 cm high concrete crest; caisson weighing 1800 tons is divided into five compartments by 25 cm thick trapezoidal shells which expand on water side into vertical pillars 1.50 m wide and 0.75 m thick; description of slip for launching prefabricated caissons, and method of their floating, tipping, and sinking.
Improvement of facilities of port of Tunis-la Goulette
Description of new type quay, so-called open-caisson buttressed quay based on principle of buttressed dam and involving use of inclined thrust face favoring structure's stability; 360 m long quay is constituted by 11 reinforced concrete caissons 30 m long 13 m high having trapezoidal cross section, founded at -12.7 m and topped by 100 cm high concrete crest; caisson weighing 1800 tons is divided into five compartments by 25 cm thick trapezoidal shells which expand on water side into vertical pillars 1.50 m wide and 0.75 m thick; description of slip for launching prefabricated caissons, and method of their floating, tipping, and sinking.
Improvement of facilities of port of Tunis-la Goulette
Travaux d'amenagement du port de Tunis-la Goulette
Bordes, J.J. (author) / Faucher, P. (author)
Construction ; 22
1967
10 pages
Article (Journal)
French
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