Harbours and Docks
Their Physical Features, History, Construction, Equipment and Maintenance with Statistics as to their Commercial Development
Published on 21. August 2014
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Paperback/Softback
756 pages
978-1-108-07202-1 (ISBN)
Description
Professor of civil engineering at University College London, Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1839-1907) drew on considerable practical experience, having worked most notably on London's East and West India docks. The present work was first published in two volumes in 1885. This reissue combines in one volume the text and the plates, including plans and maps of important examples. The topics discussed include natural and artificial harbours; the impact of waves, tides and currents; and general principles of construction. Furthering Vernon-Harcourt's aim to educate readers on both the theory and practice of hydraulic engineering, the work features case studies on specific projects (including their origins and condition at that time), shedding much light on the history and operation of infrastructure that proved essential for the development of modern trade. Of related interest, Thomas Stevenson's The Design and Construction of Harbours (second edition, 1874) is also reissued in this series.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
16 Plates, black and white; 26 Line drawings, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 44 mm
Weight
1048 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-07202-1 (9781108072021)
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Their Physical Features, History, Construction, Equipment and Maintenance with Statistics as to their Commercial Development
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Content
Preface; Part I. Harbours: 1. Preliminary considerations; 2. Waves; 3. Tides, currents, and changes in coasts; 4. Forms of harbours; 5. Jetties and breakwaters; 6. Breakwaters formed of a mound and superstructure; 7. Upright-wall breakwaters; 8. Jetty harbours with parallel jetties; 9. Harbours with converging jetties; 10. Harbours protected by rubble mound breakwaters; 11. Harbours protected by rubble and concrete-block mound breakwaters; 12. Mediterranean harbours with slight superstructures; 13. Harbours protected by a rubble mound; 14. Harbours protected by sorted rubble and concrete-block mounds; 15. Harbours protected by a rubble mound, and a superstructure; 16. Harbours sheltered by upright-wall breakwaters; 17. Harbours on sandy coasts; 18. Lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and removal of sunken rocks; Part II. Docks: 19. Sites and preliminary works for docks; 20. Dock walls, pitched slopes, and jetties; 21. Entrances and locks, dock-gates, caissons, graving docks, movable bridges; 22. Various works and appliances for docks; 23. Descriptions of docks; 24. Descriptions of docks (cont.); 25. Descriptions of docks (cont.); 26. Government dockyards; 27. Foreign docks; 28. Foreign docks and river quays; Appendices 1-7; Index.