How To Use Caisson In A Sentence
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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
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The buttresses rise from caisson caps, each covering six concrete caissons.
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The design load capacity of each caisson at the anchor piers is 1,640 tons.
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The caisson has been constructed inside a ‘cofferdam’ - a box-like structure built of pilings and a concrete floor.
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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"
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The seal course at the bottom of the caissons is 8 m thick and required about 6,000 m³ of underwater concrete.
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These floats transported the great floating concrete caissons which formed the sea walls of the Mulberry Harbours.
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D.C. Respecting his wishes, Kopp's family requested a burial with full military honors, including a caisson, which is a horse-drawn carriage, to carry his casket.
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Eventually the parties agreed on a strict monitoring plan relying on seismographs and strain gauges to assess the effect on the structure as crews installed the caissons.
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The 25-m - long x 10-m-wide caissons travelled on pontoons before being sunk into place.
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He sailed to the raid in HMS Campbeltown and landed by jumping over the ship's bow onto the caisson to conduct demolition work ashore.
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While most of the army's accomplished horsemen served in the Cavalry, the Field Artillery used horses to draw its caissons, and officers needed to learn to ride adroitly.
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The caparison horse is led behind the caisson tacked with an empty saddle with rider's boots reversed in the stirrups, a symbol of a warrior who will never ride again.
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The port consisted of a series of caissons forming the outside wall, with various pontoons and jetties inside, mainly following the design of a bailey bridge (big meccano).
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The protection was needed only during the time the caisson was afloat and before it was entirely submerged below the riverbed, where the sea worm, the teredo, never penetrates.
The Great Bridge
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The caissons were huge hollow reinforced concrete blocks that were floated across the channel and then sunk when in position.
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It's a combined highway and transit construction project and requires drilling foundation caissons in areas with underground utilities.
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There is a large cast of secondary characters in Metropolis, as well as many side stories and digressions from the main narrative, on topics such as street paving, sewer building, underwater caisson excavation, women's health and bacteriology.
Metropolis by Elizabeth Gaffney: Questions
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The caissons themselves are socketed into rock located 1.2 or 2.4 m below ground, depending on the location.
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As more timber courses were added on top and the over-all height of the caisson was increased by a full ten feet, its center of gravity was raised considerably, causing a condition of “unstable equilibrium”—that is, the caisson would no longer rise uniformly with the rise of the tide.
The Great Bridge
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The caissons were huge hollow reinforced concrete blocks that were floated across the channel and then sunk when in position.
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It was impossible to resist the line of World War I toys - including doughboys with fixed bayonets and artillery attached to caissons that were pulled by teams of horses.
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Constructed of various concrete caissons and pontoons, the Mulberrys were the innovation that made the Normandy campaign following the D-Day landings possible.
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The housing consists of prefabricated concrete caissons which are inset in the lagoon floor and contain service tunnels and machinery.
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Mounted on top of the caisson was a 5-ton Wilson crane, which would reach each shaft and also the muck cars standing on tracks on the ground level beside the caissons.
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The East River Tunnels. Paper No. 1159
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But it is more usual to employ what is called the plenum process, in which air under high pressure is pumped into the caisson and expels the water, as in a diving bell.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883
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Suction caisson is an important new style offshore structure foundation. Its ultimate bearing capacity can be calculated approximately on the base of ultimate balance method.
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Exposure to such pressures is apt to be followed by disagreeable and even dangerous physiological effects, which are commonly referred to as caisson disease or compressed air illness.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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The sand, some 14 feet in depth, which originally surrounded the building, has been washed away, allowing the sea free access to the foundation caisson, which is down 14 feet into the solid madrepore.
Report on the Department of Ports and Harbours for the Year 1890-91
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The other two squads had further to go in attacking similar installations around the northern or inner caisson.
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A massive 7,000-tonne concrete caisson has replaced the temporary steel coffer dam, and three cranes - one of ten tonnes, two of 25 tonnes - were transported across Five Basin to Nine Dock by floating crane.
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Concrete grade beams spanning between the caissons were used to accommodate external envelope conditions and elevator pits.
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The caisson is made of wood, but looks so shinny and smooth to the untrained eye it looks like metal.
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Concrete grade beams spanning between the caissons were used to accommodate external envelope conditions and elevator pits.
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It was impossible to resist the line of World War I toys - including doughboys with fixed bayonets and artillery attached to caissons that were pulled by teams of horses.
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Authors mainly introduce quality control of allotype caisson in prefabrication, float transport and installation process.
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These were noticed first among men in new industrial applications: tunnelling below water and working in caissons.
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When a caisson was exploded, yells of exultation were heard along the whole rebel lines....
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It's called a caisson, which is a huge, watertight wooden box half the size of a city block.
Rands In Repose
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Horses lash out, the cannons flee; the soldiers of the artillery-train unharness the caissons and use the horses to make their escape; transports overturned, with all four wheels in the air, clog the road and occasion massacres.
Les Miserables
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The other two squads had further to go in attacking similar installations around the northern or inner caisson.
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Graves were everywhere; dead soldiers and horses lay unburied; and destroyed wagons and caissons littered the area.
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In 1996 the log shafts had been replaced by concrete caissons, but the mine was essentially dormant.
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We saw the bronze of a Civil War general on horseback, soldiers hanging onto an artillery caisson clattering to his side.
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Sometimes when this happened a man might crawl inside, beyond the limits of the caisson, that is, to dramatize the uncanny nature of such a space, not to mention his own nerve.
The Great Bridge
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He's suffering from what used to be called caisson disease -- and hell never recover from it.
Fear is the Key
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Water ingress was a major problem in such workings, and in 1830 Admiral Lord Thomas Cochrane patented the technique of using compressed air in tunnels and caissons to exclude water.
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The cost will have been, when completed, about $700,000, and it is now waiting only for the entrance caisson, which is being made at the Dominion Bridge
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