Special barge to transport and place 90-ton concrete blocks, was designed for construction of 3300-ft breakwater in Portugal; tipping car, operating on rails set below deck level, employed system of screw jacks to dump blocks over end of overhanging beam and into position in breakwater.
Barge places 90-ton breakwater blocks
Eng News-Rec
Engineering News-Record ; 131 , n 3
1943
3 pages
Article (Journal)
English
© Metadata Copyright Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
Simulation of the motions of a floating storage barge moored inside a breakwater
Tema Archive | 1981
|Manufacturing process submersible concrete blocks and concrete barge
European Patent Office | 2016