Vitrified Brick Pavements For Country Roads Classic Reprint

Author : Clark R. M.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331970279
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book A Text Book on Brick Pavements (Classic Reprint) written by Clark R. M. and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A d104 Book on Brick Pavements Highway Economics have advanced so rapidly in the past I fifteen years that it has become practically impossible to I treat fully all phases of the subject in one volume. A book on street pavements alone becomes bulky and special volumes are necessary to cover the subjects of street designs, country roads, street cleaning, etc. The increased amount of traffic due to the rapid development of the automobile has not only thrown an Increased strain on street and road pavements, but has created a demand for more pavements and for smoother and better pavements maintained to a high degree of perfection. It occured to the writer that a series of hand books treating each of the standard pavements separately would perhaps enable them to be covered in a comprehensive manner with the entire emphasis of the subject matter on the particular pavement under consideration. In this way each class of pavement and related subjects may be treated In an exhaustive manner with the view to obtaining the most satisfactory final pavement surface of the type under discussion. There must of necessity be included considerable matter applicable to all the standard pavements but an effort has been made to exclude from this volume general discussions which are not pertinent to brick pavements. The author is an advocate of good, well constructed pavements. He believes that there is a place for all the standard paving materials, provided that skill and care are used in the design and construction. Greater attention to details and a more thorough understanding of the limitations as well as the strong points of each kind of pavement are essential items to good street or road surfaces. It is hoped that the present volume on Brick Pavements will prove of interest to municipal officers, commissioners and citizens in general as well as to city engineers, road engineers, county surveyors and paving contractors. For this reason many tables, formulae and other technical matter have been omitted as these would be dry reading for the first class of readers and are available to the second class In numerous published handbooks for engineers. The author wishes to acknowledge the help and encouragement rendered by the Western Paving Brick Manufacturers Association in the preparation of this volume. They have undertaken its publication and distribution and otherwise aided in gathering the illustrations and historical data. Their interest in the subject matter has been the presentation of methods of construction which will insure the best and most satisfactory use of brick material for pavements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.