caisson

How To Use caisson In A Sentence

• His wonder and admiration were again excited by the neatness and perfect order that prevailed throughout the encampment, the six guns of a battery aligned with mathematical precision and accompanied by their caissons, prolonges, forage-wagons, and forges. The Downfall
• The buttresses rise from caisson caps, each covering six concrete caissons.
• The design load capacity of each caisson at the anchor piers is 1,640 tons.
• The caisson has been constructed inside a ‘cofferdam’ - a box-like structure built of pilings and a concrete floor.
• The term caisson is sometimes applied to flat air-tight constructions used for raising vessels out of water for cleaning or repairs, by being sunk under them and then floated; but these floating caissons are more commonly known as pontoons, or, when air-chambers are added at the sides, as floating dry-docks. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
• Some 30 million ft of lumber and 1 million steel reinforcing rods supported the original Wacker Drive, with about 600 caissons excavated to an average of 95 ft.
• Rebar cages for the caissons were assembled remotely, moved on-site, and lowered into the hole at night; the hole was filled with concrete, leaving a cold joint at the top of the apron.
• It has also been speculated that the use of the color purple was adopted because of the use of purple heart wood from Brazil to make caissons for the artillery.
• The seal course at the bottom of the caissons is 8 m thick and required about 6,000 m³ of underwater concrete.
• These floats transported the great floating concrete caissons which formed the sea walls of the Mulberry Harbours.