Sentence examples for caissons from inspiring English sources

For cases like this the system will have a range of watertight structures called caissons, which are based on the suction-pile technology used to emplace deep-sea moorings and foundations.A giant sucking soundA suction pile is open at one end.

The entire space required for the structure was therefore excavated to formation level by dredging, and the sidewalls were constructed first, using prefabricated concrete caissons sunk into place and filled with concrete.

The spaces between adjacent caissons were sealed by filling with concrete in the same way.

Two types of air locks are in general use: the horizontal, for tunnels, in which the doors are hinged on vertical axes; and the vertical, for caissons, in which the door arrangement must make provision for the cable that hoists material from the working chamber to the surface.

A series of planes was built in the United States on the canal between the Delaware and Hudson rivers to transport 80-ton vessels in caissons; a similar plane for 60-ton vessels was built at Foxton, Eng., to bypass 10 locks.

It was estimated that construction of the caissons alone required 330,000 cubic yards (252,000 cubic metres) of concrete, 31,000 tons of steel, and 1.5 million yards (1.4 million metres) of steel shuttering.

In London the young Swiss engineer Charles Labelye, entrusted with the building of the first bridge at Westminster, evolved a novel and ingenious method of sinking the foundations, employing huge timber caissons that were filled with masonry after they had been floated into position for each pier.

The diameter of caissons varies from one to three metres (three to 10 feet).

The caisson could not simply be capped, because the oil pressure would blow its suction pile out of the sea floor.Whether or not a caisson was used, the oil from the containment assembly would then pass through a manifold a sort of switching yard for pipes to one or more floating risers leading to the surface and held vertical by buoys.

The caisson would fill with oil from the leak.

A containment assembly would then be attached to the top of the caisson to send the oil elsewhere.