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Auger and fancy forms lick tough piers
Construction of column piers of Duluth-Superior Bridge, Minn; soil difficulties included deep fill of old lumber mill wastes, areas where piles could not be driven even by hammer delivering 80,000 ft/lb of energy, and boiling up of material around bottom piles where high pressure jet was used as help in piling; use of prefabricated steel forms for concreting of 103 ft high columns; crawler crane positioned forms and handled pours; for pier caps, 22 ton forms were used.
Auger and fancy forms lick tough piers
Construction of column piers of Duluth-Superior Bridge, Minn; soil difficulties included deep fill of old lumber mill wastes, areas where piles could not be driven even by hammer delivering 80,000 ft/lb of energy, and boiling up of material around bottom piles where high pressure jet was used as help in piling; use of prefabricated steel forms for concreting of 103 ft high columns; crawler crane positioned forms and handled pours; for pier caps, 22 ton forms were used.
Auger and fancy forms lick tough piers
Construction Methods Equipment
1961
5 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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