Working Data for Irrigation Engineers

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John Wiley & sons, Incorporated, 1915 - Hydraulics - 395 pages
 

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Page 371 - All tests shall be made in accordance with the methods proposed by the Committee on Uniform Tests of Cement...
Page 318 - Contracting Officer" as used herein means the person executing this contract on behalf of the Government and includes a duly appointed successor or authorized representative. 2. SPECIFICATIONS AND DRAWINGS The Contractor shall keep on the work a copy of the drawings and specifications and shall at all times give the Contracting Officer access thereto. Anything mentioned in the specifications and not shown on the drawings, or shown on the drawings and not mentioned in the specifications, shall be...
Page 372 - ... the Committee recommends the natural sand from Ottawa, 111., screened to pass a sieve having 20 meshes per linear inch and retained on a sieve having 30 meshes per linear inch; the wires to have diameters of 0.0165 and 0.0112 in., respectively, ie, half the width of the opening in each case.
Page 4 - Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming— states in which the Missouri and its tributaries drain an area of about 525,000 square miles (1,360,000 sq km).
Page 367 - Any package that is short weight or broken or that contains damaged cement may be rejected, or accepted as a fractional package at the option of the engineer.
Page 371 - In making the test, the needles shall be held in a vertical position, and applied lightly to the surface of the pat. XIV. TENSION TESTS 51. The form of test piece shown in Fig. 6 shall be used. The molds shall be made of non-corroding metal and have sufficient material in the sides to prevent spreading during molding.
Page 369 - The operation is continued until not more than onetenth of 1 per cent, passes through after one minute of continuous sieving. The residue is weighed, then placed on the No. 100 sieve and the operation repeated. The work may be expedited by placing in the sieve a small quantity of large shot.
Page 314 - If a bidder wishes to withdraw his proposal he may do so before the time fixed for the opening without prejudice to himself, by communicating his purpose in writing to the officer who holds it, and, when reached, it shall be handed to him or his authorized agent, unread.
Page 371 - The moulds should be filled at once, the material pressed in firmly with the fingers and smoothed off with a trowel without ramming; the material should be heaped up on the upper surface of the...
Page 347 - For pipes whose standard thickness is less than 1 inch, the thickness of metal in the body of the pipe shall not be more than 0.08 inch less than the standard thickness, and for pipes whose standard thickness is 1 inch or more, the variation shall not exceed 0.10...

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