Harbours and Docks
Their Physical Features, History, Construction, Equipment and Maintenance with Statistics as to their Commercial Development

A one-volume reissue of text and plate volumes, originally published in 1885 by a civil engineer with widely acknowledged expertise.

Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (Author)

9781108072021, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 21 August 2014

756 pages, 42 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 4.2 cm, 0.95 kg

Professor of civil engineering at University College London, Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1839–1907) drew on considerable practical experience, having worked most notably on London's East and West India docks. The present work was first published in two volumes in 1885. This reissue combines in one volume the text and the plates, including plans and maps of important examples. The topics discussed include natural and artificial harbours; the impact of waves, tides and currents; and general principles of construction. Furthering Vernon-Harcourt's aim to educate readers on both the theory and practice of hydraulic engineering, the work features case studies on specific projects (including their origins and condition at that time), shedding much light on the history and operation of infrastructure that proved essential for the development of modern trade. Of related interest, Thomas Stevenson's The Design and Construction of Harbours (second edition, 1874) is also reissued in this series.

Preface
Part I. Harbours: 1. Preliminary considerations
2. Waves
3. Tides, currents, and changes in coasts
4. Forms of harbours
5. Jetties and breakwaters
6. Breakwaters formed of a mound and superstructure
7. Upright-wall breakwaters
8. Jetty harbours with parallel jetties
9. Harbours with converging jetties
10. Harbours protected by rubble mound breakwaters
11. Harbours protected by rubble and concrete-block mound breakwaters
12. Mediterranean harbours with slight superstructures
13. Harbours protected by a rubble mound
14. Harbours protected by sorted rubble and concrete-block mounds
15. Harbours protected by a rubble mound, and a superstructure
16. Harbours sheltered by upright-wall breakwaters
17. Harbours on sandy coasts
18. Lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and removal of sunken rocks
Part II. Docks: 19. Sites and preliminary works for docks
20. Dock walls, pitched slopes, and jetties
21. Entrances and locks, dock-gates, caissons, graving docks, movable bridges
22. Various works and appliances for docks
23. Descriptions of docks
24. Descriptions of docks (cont.)
25. Descriptions of docks (cont.)
26. Government dockyards
27. Foreign docks
28. Foreign docks and river quays
Appendices 1-7
Index.

Subject Areas: Civil engineering, surveying & building [TN]