 | Industrial arts - 1852 - 446 pages
...expend itself in crushing the fibres of the head of the pile. In such a case, it will be found that the pile will safely bear, without danger of further...ram falls in making that blow, divided by eight." For example, let us take a practical case in which the ram weighs one ton and falls six feet, and in... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1852 - 450 pages
...expend itself in crushing the fibres of the head of the pile. In such a case, it will be found that the pile will safely bear, without danger of further subsidence, " as many times the weight of the rani, as the distance which the pile is sunk the last blow, is contained in the distance which the... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1852 - 460 pages
...expend itself in crushing the fibres of the head of the pile. In such a case, it will be found that the pile will safely bear, without danger of further subsidence, " as many tunes the weight of the ram, as the distance which the pile is sunk the last blow, is contained in... | |
 | Science - 1853 - 336 pages
...expend itself in crushing the fibres of the head of the pile. In such a case it will be found that the pile will safely bear, without danger of further...ram falls in making that blow, divided by eight." For example, let us take a practical case, in which the ram weighs one ton and falls 6 feet, and in... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1868 - 706 pages
...Sanders, US Engineers, from the results of his experiments at Fort Delaware, in 1849, as follows :2 — " The pile will safely bear, without danger of further...corresponding with one given by Weisbach, as follows : — W Where W is the weight of the ram in tons, and W' the weight of the pile in tons, h is the height,... | |
 | Engineering - 1873 - 598 pages
...therefore, seems to bo a rule which leaves important elements out of consideration. It is this : — " The pile will safely bear, without danger of further...the pile moves equally at several of the last blows. To apply this to the case above mentioned, in which the weight of the ram is 15 cwt., the fall 12 ft.,... | |
 | Spon E. & F.N., ltd - 1869 - 402 pages
...this respect at defiance. Molesworth gives one as follows ; — '< The pile will safely bear, witheut danger of further subsidence, as many times the weight...that blow divided by eight, provided the pile moves uniformly at several of the last blows." Mathematically this rule may be thus expressed; — Let S,... | |
 | Edward Spon - Engineering - 1873 - 398 pages
...danger of further subsidence, as many times tho weight of the ram as the distance which the pile ¡a sunk the last blow is contained in the distance which...that blow divided by eight, provided the pile moves uniformly at several of the last blows." Mathematically this rule may be thus expressed; — Let S,... | |
 | Edward Spon, Oliver Byrne, Ernest Spon, Francis N. Spon - Engineering - 1874 - 396 pages
...almost set theoretical calculations in this respect at defiance. Molesworth gives one as follaws ; — " The pile will safely bear, without danger of further...the distance which the ram falls in making that blow dividid by eight, provided the pile moves uniformly at several of the last blows." Mathematically this... | |
 | Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt - Canals - 1882 - 372 pages
...there is an absence of 1 A rule frequently adopted in America is as follows : — A pile will carry, without danger of further subsidence, as many times...of the ram as the distance which the pile is sunk by the last blow is contained in the distance the ram falls in making the blow, divided by eight. 2... | |
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In such a case, it will be found that the pile will safely bear, without danger of further subsidence, " as many times the weight of the ram, as the distance which the pile is sunk the last blow, is contained in the distance which the ram falls in making... 
