 For the coping and top courses of a wall, the same objections do not apply to excess in length : but this excess may, on the contrary, prove favorable ; because the number of top joints being thus diminished, the mass beneath the coping will be better...  A Treatise on Civil Engineering - Page 175by Dennis Hart Mahan - 1873 - 513 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Dennis Hart Mahan - Civil engineering - 1846 - 380 pages
...set it on its bed. 349. For the coping and top courses of a wall, the same objections do not apply to excess in length : but this excess may, on the...when they contract, being washed out by the rain. 350. The closeness with which the blocks fit is solely dependent on the accuracy with which the surfaces... | |
 | Dennis Hart Mahan - Civil engineering - 1846 - 378 pages
...set it on its bed. 349. For the coping and top courses of a wall, the same objections do not apply to excess in length : but this excess may, on the...when they contract, being •washed out by the rain. 350. The closeness with which the blocks fit is solely dependent on the accuracy with which the surfaces... | |
 | Dennis Hart Mahan - Civil engineering - 1852 - 420 pages
...set it on its bed. 349. For the coping and top courses of a wall, the same objections do not apply to excess in length : but this excess may, on the...when they contract, being washed out by the rain. 350. The closeness with which the blocks fit is solely dependent on the accuracy with which the surfaces... | |
 | Dennis Hart Mahan - Civil engineering - 1855 - 446 pages
...set it on its bed. 349. For the coping and top courses of a wall, the same objections do not apply to excess in length : but this excess may, on the...and, when they contract, being washed out by the rain . 350. The closeness with which the blocks fit is solely dependent on the accuracy with which the surfaces... | |
 | Spon E. & F.N., ltd - 1869 - 402 pages
...men, to set it on its bed. For the coping and top courses of a wall, the same objections do not apply to excess in length ; but this excess may, on the contrary, prove favourable ; because the number of top joints being thus diminished, the mass beneath the coping will... | |
 | Dennis Hart Mahan - Civil engineering - 1871 - 456 pages
...349. For the coping and top courses of a wall, the same objections do not apply to excess inlength : but this excess may, on the contrary, prove favorable;...when they contract, being washed out by the rain. 351. The surfaces of one set of joints should, as a prime condition, be perpendicular to the direction... | |
 | Julius George Medley - 1873 - 942 pages
...masonry. 308. Coping. — For the coping and top courses of a wall, the same objections do not apply to excess in length ; but this excess may, on the...because the number of top joints being thus diminished, tho mass beneath the coping will be better protected, being exposed only at the joints, which cannot... | |
 | Edward Spon - Engineering - 1873 - 398 pages
...men, to set it on its bed. For the coping and top courses of a wall, the same objections do not apply to excess in length ; but this excess may, on the contrary, prove favourable ; because the number of top joints being thus diminished, the mass beneath the coping will... | |
 | Dennis Hart Mahan - Civil engineering - 1877 - 642 pages
...blocks of small size. Again, the strength of some stones is so great as to admit of their being used m blocks of any size, without danger to the stability...the contrary, prove favorable ; because the number Df top joints being thus diminished, the mass beneath the coping will be better protected, being exposed... | |
 | Arthur Moffatt Lang - Civil engineering - 1878 - 686 pages
...masonry. 308. Coping. — For the coping and top courses of a wall, the same objections do not apply to excess in length ; but this excess may, on the contrary, prove favourable ; because the number of top joints being thus diminished, the mass beneath the coping will... | |
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