A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Harbour Engineering

Brysson Cunningham

Charles Griffin, 1908 - Harbors - 283 pages

Contents

• CHAPTER: 1
• Zeebrugge Harbour: 2
• Queenstown Harbour: 3
• Sunderland Harbour: 4
• Portland Harbour: 5
• Peterhead Harbour of Refuge: 6
• Harbour of Refuge Sandy Bay Mass U S A: 7
• CHAPTER II: 8
• Entrance to Langston Harbour showing currents: 9
• Wind Diagram: 10
• Wind Diagram: 11
• Wind Diagram: 12
• Tidal Diagram showing range of tides at Liverpool: 22
• Track of Shore Drift 15 16 Littoral Drift 17 Littoral Drift: 23
• Salina Cruz Harbour: 24
• Har of Ceara 20 Littoral Drift at River Mouth 21 Entrance to Christchurch Harbour: 25
• Littoral Drift: 26
• 2328 Tidal Currents in and out of Dover Harbour: 27
• Port of Libau: 29
• Madras Harbour: 30
• Extent of Damage by Storm of 1881: 31
• Whitby Harbour: 37
• Proposed Fish Quay: 39
• Proposed Piers 36 Proposed Wave Trap: 40
• Arnager Island Harbour 38 Snogebæk Island Harbour: 41
• Hundested Island Harbour: 42
• CHAPTER III: 43
• 40 41 Sounding Lines 42 Sutcliffes Sounding Apparatus 43 Mechanism of Section Plotter 44 Line of Soundings taken by Sutcliffes Apparatus 45 Te...: 45
• Tide Gauge for Choppy Water: 46
• Tide Gauge House on Quay Wall: 47
• Tide Gauge House on River Bank: 48
• Float used on the Mersey: 49
• Angular Determination of Course of Float: 50
• Angular Determination of Course of Float: 52
• Float used on the Avon: 53
• Steel Diving Bell: 54
• Divers and Diving Bells at Dover Harbour Works: 54
• Submersion of Diving Bells at Folkestone Harbour Extension Works: 54
• Divers at Work: 57
• Teredo Navalis: 58
• Chelura Terebrans: 59
• CHAPTER IV: 60
• Reinforced Slabs to Timber Pile: 61
• 6365 Interlocking Steel Sheeting Piles: 63
• Hennebique Pile: 66
• Mouchel Hollow Pile: 67
• Johnston Pile: 68
• Chenoweth Pile: 69
• Williams Pile: 70
• Piled Foundation to New York Quay: 71
• Plan of Piled Platform of Quay Wall New York Harbour: 72
• Piling Test at New York Harbour: 73
• Core Bit: 74
• Core Lifter: 75
• Ingersoll Percussive Drill: 76
• Section of Ingersoll Drill: 77
• Drill Steels: 78
• Electric Detonator Fuse in Cartridge: 79
• Low Tension Fuse: 80
• High Tension Fuse: 81
• Quarrying for Fishguard Harbour Cliffs before Blasting: 82
• Mine Explosion at Fishguard: 83
• NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL: 84
• Fishguard Breakwater in course of Construction: 85
• Mines at Holyhead: 86
• Standard Cement Briquette: 88
• Standard Jaws for Briquette: 89
• Needle for Cement Testing: 90
• Apparatus for Le Chatelier Test: 91
• Section of Portland Breakwater: 92
• to fuce 178: 92
• Section of Plymouth Breakwater: 93
• PAGE 9: 94
• Wave in Shallow Water: 95
• Breaking Wave: 96
• Section of Holyhead Breakwater: 97
• Deflection of Waves by Headland: 98
• 10: 99
• Section of Leixoes Breakwater: 100
• Section of Ymuiden Breakwater: 101
• Stevensons Wave Stroke Dynamometer: 102
• Baileys Wave Stroke Dynamometer: 103
• Section of Madras Breakwater: 104
• Harbour of Genoa: 105
• Wave breaking over Genoa Breakwater: 106
• Part Section of Nuovo Mole Genoa: 107
• Section of Galliera Mole Genoa as constructed: 108
• Plan of Portion of Galliera Mole damaged by Storm of 1898: 110
• BREAKWATER DESIGN: 111
• View of Genoa Breakwater after Storm: 113
• Section of Battery Pier Douglas I O M: 115
• Sections of Grand Jetée Marseilles: 116
• Digue de la Joliette Marseilles: 118
• Breakwaters at Algiers: 119
• Breakwater at Sandy Bay U S A: 120
• River Tyne Breakwater: 122
• Plan of Tynemouth Piers: 123
• Hopper Barge discharging load: 124
• to face to face: 132
• Benching: 135
• Moulds for Concrete Work under Water: 136
• 137141 Masonry Joints and Connections: 137
• Piano Blockwork at Tynemouth: 142
• Bedplug: 143
• Sloping Bond: 144
• Joint Packing: 145
• 146149 Caisson at Zeebrugge: 146
• CHAPTER VII: 149
• Aligning Caisson at Zeebrugge: 150
• 151 Sinking Caisson at Zeebrugge: 151
• Longitudinal Elevation of Staging Holyhead Breakwater: 152
• 26 Staging Piles Holyhead Breakwater: 153
• Rail Track Holyhead Breakwater Staging: 154
• Transverse View of Staging Holyhead Breakwater: 155
• Titan and Caisson at Bilbao Breakwater Works: 156
• Titan: 157
• Sections of Dover Breakwater: 158
• Goliath: 159
• Port Light and Mast: 160
• Plan of South Pierhead at Pillau: 161
• Pier Foundations: 162
• 132 Foundation Caisson for Piers: 163
• Moulds for Concrete Foundations: 164
• Concrete and Stone Foundation Work: 165
• 164166 South Pierhead at Pillau Condition in 1901: 167
• Quay with Sloping Revetment: 168
• 71 73 74 74 75 75: 169
• Steps on Quay Wall: 172
• Mooring Buoys: 174
• Stability of Floating Bodies: 175
• Stability of Floating Bodies: 177
• to face 80: 178
• Pontoon Stability Diagram: 179
• 88: 183
• 90: 184
• 186 187 Methods of tracing Hyperbolic and Parabolic Curves: 186
• CHAPTER VIII: 187
• Graphic Calculation: 188
• Stability of Pontoon with Compartments: 189
• 92: 190
• Stability of Pontoon with Compartments: 191
• 192198 Pontoon Stress Diagrams: 192
• 199200 Liverpool Floating Landing Stage: 199
• to face 92: 200
• Liverpool Floating Landing Stage: 201
• Type of Normal River Flow: 202
• Diverse Courses of River Currents: 203
• 97: 204
• 207209 Training Works Seine Estuary: 207
• Bar of River Mersey: 210
• Timber Groyne: 211
• Fascine Work in the Wash: 212
• Wave Trap: 213
• ulation Works: 214
• Training Jetties at Tampico Harbour: 215
• River Regulation Works at Westport N Z: 217
• Training Works Richmond River N S W 219 220 Regulation Works on River Rhine 221 222 Beacons 223225 National Systems of Buoyage 226 Ch...: 218
• 200: 219
• ENTRANCE CHANNELS: 222
• 204: 224
• 207: 227
• 12: 230
• 13: 232
• 213: 233
• 112: 235
• 214: 239
• 15: 241
• Tower Lantern and Light: 242
• 218: 243
• 17: 245
• 220: 247
• 224: 248
• CHAPTER X: 250
• 20: 255
• 228: 260
• 115: 261
• 230: 264
• 232: 265
• 233: 266
• 238: 269
• 240: 270
• 242: 272
• 245: 275
• 247: 277
• 130131 to face 132 133 137 142 143 144 146 147 148 150: 279
• 27: 280
• 29: 281
• 157: 283
• 42: 24
• 48: 25
• 49: 49
• 50: 50
• 9: 51

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Bibliographic information

• Title: A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Harbour Engineering
• Author: Brysson Cunningham
• Publisher: Charles Griffin, 1908
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Sep 29, 2007
• Length: 283 pages