Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910: The Bergen Hill Tunnels. Paper No. 1154Lavis, F.
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Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910: The Bergen Hill Tunnels. Paper No. 1154
Lavis, F.
Civil engineering -- Periodicals; Railroad tunnels -- Design and construction
After the forms had been filled, the conveyor could not be moved back to
the bench-wall until the concrete had set sufficiently so that these
cross-braces could be removed, and, on account of the overhang at the
top, the set had to be fairly good in order to prevent this overhang
from breaking off. This arrangement, therefore, for placing the concrete
was found to be impractical, if the proposed schedule of a section of
bench-wall and a section of sand-wall to be built on alternate days, was
to be carried out. In a few instances, where the sand-wall was finished
fairly early in the afternoon, the forms were released next morning, and
the conveyor was moved back, but, even then, 2 or 3 hours at least were
lost at the beginning of the shift. The conveyor, however, was
abandoned, for the reasons previously given, and the traveling gantry
was rearranged to allow concrete to be delivered at either end; it was
then only necessary to move it backward and forward between the bench-
and sand-wall forms instead of through these forms. This permitted the
construction of the much more substantial type of forms shown by Fig.
14.
After being moved ahead on the track on top of the foundation, the form
was first blocked up to grade, and then adjusted to line by the screws
and slotted cleats shown at _B_, Fig. 14, after which it was secured by
the braces from the ditches, as shown. The face lagging was placed in
separate pieces and held against the uprights by lightly nailing every
third or fourth piece; the whole was removed each time the form was
moved, and built up again as the concrete was placed.
Considerable care was taken to slope the top of the sand-wall back
toward the rock, as shown by Fig. 14, and to allow free drainage along
the top (which ran parallel to the grade of the tunnel) to the 4-in.
cast-iron drain pipes which carried the water from the rock packing
above the arch to the drains beneath the track.
Sand-walls were built for a length of about 1,100 ft. in each tunnel at
the Weehawken end, and about 700 ft. in each tunnel at the western end,
the remainder of the work, with the exception of a few short stretches,
not being considered wet enough to require water-proofing.
[Illustration: Fig. 14.
TRAVELING FORM FOR BUILDING SAND-WALL;
DETAIL SHOWING METHOD OF HANGING WATER-PROOFING FROM TOP OF SAND-WALL]
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