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"NEW DRY DOCK AT KAWASAKI, | was that of piling the stratum above, which the
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A REMARKABLE ENGINEERING FEAT. The Dry Dock which has just been complet ed at the Kawasaki Shipbuilding Yard, Kobe, in respect of the difficulties which have been encountered and overcome at several stages of the construction, and in respect of the com pleted work, would do credit to the best design ers, engineers and labourers of the West.
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concrete boltom of the dock was to be laid.. This work, it should be noted, had to be, car
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1904.
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ried out under water, well-grounded fear NORTHERN, PACIFIC STEAMSHIP | NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN.
COMPANY:
being entertained that the removal of the superincumbent weight of the water in the dock area might lead to the bursting of the bottom by the water in the low stream of silt BOSTON STEAMSHIP: COMPANY. previously referred to. The piling occupied about 12 months. The number of piles used
The construction of a Dry Dock at Kobe was in contemplation before the Kawasaki Dock-ends are buried several feet in the stratum of yard (originally a Government enterprise) was taken over by a private Company, but nothing was actually done until the property was sold to private parties, among whom, Count Mat- sukala, ex-Finance Minister of the Japanese Government, was the principal, and whose son is now President of the Kawasaki Company,
The construction of the Dock was begun six years aga, viz: in the autumn of 1896. The Dock, therefore, consumed over si years in completion and as the period seems long in comparison to the cost Yen 1,700,000 (£160,000) a description of the features of the work of ex- cavation and construction and remembrance of the fact that labour, both skilled and unskilled, is so much cheaper than the standard in Europe and America will show that the enterprise is comparable in magnitude to some of the most important of the same kind there.
The general dimensions of the Dock may
here be stated for convenience sake:-
Shaku.
In length 40%.9 (the shake is almost exactly Depth over Sill 23.9 equal to the English foot.) Width of En-
51.7
trance at bot- tomi. Width of En-
trance at top 63.6
The Dock accommodates vessels up to 5,000 tous. Its capacity equal to 28,000 tons of water.
In no other example of Dock construction in Japan have the builders had the same diffi- culties occurring from the nature of the soil as confronted the constructors of the Kawasaki Dock. It is in the manner in which these diffi- culties have been overcome that the credit of the designers and engineers chiefy lies. A brief report written by the engineer in charge, describes these difficulties and they will appeal to all engineers who have had similar work through their hands:-
Boring on the site of the Dock gave the fol- lowing results as to strata ;-
From High Water to 20, Sand. From 2210 45', silt,
From 45 to 51, Silt mixed with Sand. From 1 to 52, broken granite mixed with
Sand,
From 52 10 73 Compact Sand According to information gat from Japanese artesian well-borers, the inwest stratum of com. pact sand extends as down as go below high water level. Then follows another layer of silt about 33' io depth, below which there is another layer of sand, the thickness of which was ascertained to be about 168' The lower silt stratum was found to be soft that while the boring was in progress a boring rod accidentally dropped, sank 12' by its own weight. The constructors also experienced very great difficulty in removing the above soil for the construction of the cofferdam owing to the civing in of the trench made for the puddle. The further contents of this report, although they reter to the later operations, may be in serted here:-
The rubble in front of the cofferdam a (coffer dam circular in form, 200 in length was built to enclose a considerable sea area, two thirds of the dock being constrorted in reclaimed land) very often sunk several feet, and on one. occasion, is sunk g. After the clay puddle fill ing was finished all round the dock, and when the water was pumped out of the dock to 12 feet below high water level, a sinking of one sec- tion of the cofferdam occurred, while, at the same time, part of the reclaimed ground was forced up considerably above water level. In the stratum of sand below 51' from high water level, evidence of the presence of water was found as the lollowing shows:-
During the sicking of a trial pit near the site of the deck, a pile was driven, and on its reaching a depth of 53' below high water from the strat um of sand came up along the pile. This water rose so fast that the pile (5 feet in diameter) was filled from 29 below high water level to within g' of it ledge in so minutes. The silt around the pile was at the same time washed away, leaving a space sufficiently large to allow of a man's hand being the ust in.
It was the presence of water in the stratum of sand at a depth of 51' below high, water level which constituted.the most essential difficulty: in the way of the thorough success of the work. The engineers had to, calculate upon the possibility of very serious pressure on the bottom of the dock by this water seeking lasue upwards. It was found that its pressure increased and diminished with, the rise and fall of the tide. Upon analysis, this under- ground water was shown to be neither sea water nor fresh, but a mixture of both. It waS also found that, when free, it had sufficient head to rise nearly to high water level. The contracting engineer urmines that if this underground water were purely fresh water, there might be a hope of lowering its level, but from the fact that it contains some of the constituents of sea water, it is inferred that it has connection in some way with the soa. Owing to the great depth of the stratum fo which this water is found, it is almost impos sible to exclude it from the neighbourhood of the dock.
These, then, were the adverse conditions with which the constructors had to cope. The difficulties which they presented may be appre ciated from the notes given,. They were more or Jess unexpected, and they have increased the cost of the dock to proportions which might have frightened many a wealthier corporation than the Kawasaki Company. Similar con. ditions have never occurred in the zeigh- bourhood of the other four or five dry docks
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was 10,000. They were driven all over the BOSTON TOW-BOAT. COMPANY. area of the dock with a space of a feet between each, through a thick layer of impervious silt encountered when the site was bored. The
moist sand in which the running water occurs. The piles are of Japanese pine. The first stratum pierced by them is ona of rubble 3 The piles stand free of feet in thickness. this stratum r feet. The bottom was thus prepared for a layer of concrete '9' in thick- ness, into which the heads of the piling-being free of the stratum or rubble-rise 1 feet, the concrete founda- securing a consolidation tion, which received the granite facing, with the piling. The depth to which the excavations were carried before the piles were driven was 43 feet below high water level. The piles are | Olympia*. generally about 18 feet long, but in some places considerably longer. As the stratum in which the depth of 51 or 52 feet, the piling appears to have been driven some eight or ten feet into this semi-liquid sail, but this does not appear to constitute any element of weakucas in the general structure of the dock. It may be added bere, that before the dock was pumped clear of water to receive the facing, stone ballast to the amount of 10,000 cubic yards was sunk to the bottom to act as a weight against the water pressure from below. This ballast was, of course, gradually removed as the facing of the dock was proceeded with.
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No Claims will be admitted after the Goods 2,811 M. Ridley .....Feb. 26 have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining 3.302. Truebridge... Mar. 16 undelivered after 24th instant, will be subject 9,606 T. W. Garlick.. Mar. 25 to rent. 2,837 A. Dixon April 17. All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on WEDNESDAY, the 24th instant, at 9.30 A.M.
Stearsers marked (*) have no second-class passenger accommodation.
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The construction of the sides of the dock also presents some special features. The outermost protection of the sides is an embankment 40 feet in thickness. Between this and the con- crete of which the facing is built, there is a layer of 6 feet of clay puddle. The clay puddle was sunk through the water which was retained at a uniform level of 12 feet below high water. The earth protection outside of the clay puddle retains its natural slope along the sides. the head of the dock, however, the constrictors were cramped for room owing to the vicinity of a public road, and it was impossible, for this reason, to give the earth embankment its natural slope. Brick cylinders filled with con- crete were laid around the head and in the bend of the head where the space available in nar. rowed by the passage of a public road. They number six in all and they are 10 feet in ex- temal diameter. Here it may be mentioned that a smaller cylinders of brick filled with concrete were sunk in front of the entrance to the dock-a double row being laid im. mediately across the entrance. These cylinders are 14 feet in external diameter. Between the brick cylinders at the entrance (here is a de- posit of concrete, a very solid sea floor being thus provided around the gate of the dock. The deck facing is of granite 2'6" in thickness THE Starship along the sides, and at the bottom varying from 1'5" to 2'5". The only structure in con nection with the dock in which granite has not been used is the culvert connecting the dock and the pumping house, which is lined with brick. One other special point in the con struction should be mentioned. Along the sides and at the head were laid a series of iron pipes passing through the layer of lay puddle. These were laid to provide a means of testing the condition of the strain, especially with regard to water pressure, below the concrete foundation of the dock. These pipes are 6 inches in diameter.
The caisson is of the box shaped type with four sluices. The pump is electrically driven, this being the first instance of the erection of a motor for this purpose, in Japan. High water level is about 7 feet below the roof of the pumping chamber. The water pipe is 30" in diameter and drainage pipe 8. The capa city of the pump is nearly 5,000 tons per hour, and the dock can be pumped dry in about a hours.
It should be added that the construction of the dock, so far as can be judged at present, is practically perfect. There has been no leak- age at any point, nor any symptoms that such will occur.-Kabe Herald,
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and the Government Naval Docks, in Japan, TWO
where the sites choses offered easily worked sandstone and similar strata, assuring a reliable foundation at no excess of expenditure for axcavation and retaining.
Oparations were begun in November of 1896 with the construction of a circular coferdam some 200 feet -> length, and, practically simaltaneously, the reclamation of part of
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