Author: Faber, Oscar
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Faber, Oscar
The Structural Engineer, Volume 9, Issue 2, 1931
By the sudden death of Colonel Moncrieff, on the 10th January, the Institution of Structural Engineers has lost a very good friend, and members of the engineering profession in general have lost a brilliant colleague.
The object of the series of tests described in the following report was to obtain the value of the adhesion between mortar and brick. The results existing at the present date are fairly ancient and are given in Table No. 1.
IV.-CONSTRUCTION OF PERMANENT BRlDGES. (1) Bores nad trial pits Several vexatious experiences, to be described later,have impressed upon the author the imperative necessity at whatever cost in time and trouble, of making quite sure before beginning a bridge as to the depth and character of the founds that will be necessary. The policy of starting to sink wells with the intention of simply carrying on until a hard bottom is reached is never justified. Intended sites for foundations must be explored either by bores sunk at the precise spot in question-it may prove badly deceptive to attempt to interpolate between bores sunk at different places, however close-or, preferably,timbering and anyhow it; is usually cheaper to batter the sides of the hole instead. John Edwin Holmstrom