Illustrated description of caisson, numbers of which could be used to replace damaged dock gates in ports subject to large tidal range; scheme was to produce standard steel tanks capable of being floated and towed into position; caisson, when flooded, rests on prepared bed on lock bottom, but has sufficient clearance at sides, by reason of flaps, to enable it to be floated out of entrance at high water to allow shipping to enter dock.
"Shark" sectional dock caissons
Engineer
Engineer ; 180 , n 4693
1945
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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