Modern buildings : their planning, construction and equipment (1905)
Middleton, G. A. T. (George Alexander Thomas) · London : Caxton Publishing Company, Limited · leaf 92
round monkey by means of a line, and horizontal timbers called sleepers, of the same slip-hook and is pulled size as the piles, are notched over and thoroughly to a height of from 4 to spiked to them. Cross-pieces of the same section as 12 feet, when the slip- the sleepers are then notched over and… … Fig. 66. soil. The Bearing Power of Friction Piles is usually calcul- jectionable in very heavy buildings, as the fibres of the ated by one of the numerous formulas which have been sleepers crush where they bear upon the piles. Sometimes, instead of cross-pieces, planks are laid devised for this…
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