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Drydock floor being poured 60 ft below Puget Sound
Work undertaken below level of Puget Sound to place 7 ft thick slab of concrete on floor of 1180 ft long, 180 ft wide, and 61 ft deep, drydock at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard; for dewatering, 8300 gpm sea water is pumped out; 100 ft long steel sheet piles are used in cofferdam; floating caisson type gate 176 ft long with 20 ft beam and 63 ft depth, is steel frame and plate structure with concrete ballast.
Drydock floor being poured 60 ft below Puget Sound
Work undertaken below level of Puget Sound to place 7 ft thick slab of concrete on floor of 1180 ft long, 180 ft wide, and 61 ft deep, drydock at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard; for dewatering, 8300 gpm sea water is pumped out; 100 ft long steel sheet piles are used in cofferdam; floating caisson type gate 176 ft long with 20 ft beam and 63 ft depth, is steel frame and plate structure with concrete ballast.
Drydock floor being poured 60 ft below Puget Sound
Pac Bldr Engr
Ross, F.K. (author)
1960
3 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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