| 单词 | cofferdam |
| 例句 | The welding torches of men working on the steel cofferdam flickered on and off, glowing orange and electric blue. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The area behind the cofferdam swarmed with men and machines, all raising individual clouds of dust. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z A large cofferdam, made of sheets of steel, was being built on the west side of the river to divert the water away from the base of the cliffs there. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z That included the construction of a huge temporary cofferdam to divert the thundering water from the building site. A new perspective on Niagara Falls 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z The exercise began with its easiest assignment - mapping the underwater remains of the steel cofferdam where Broadwater and other archaeologists excavated the wreck of the British supply ship Betsy in the 1980s. Divers explore Yorktown’s sunken past 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z When the waters finally rose in February 1969, water seeping beneath the cofferdam overwhelmed pumps installed to drain it — exactly as predicted by geologist Fryxell. Site unseen: Floodwaters buried a treasure trove at Marmes Rockshelter 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Now that the locks were open, workers began to build a new cofferdam south of the locks in the temporary channel that had been excavated between Salmon Bay and Shilshole Bay. Our Ship Canal has provided a century of connections 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z The so-called cofferdam will allow workers to repair the ship’s corroded hull for the first time in more than 60 years. Battleship North Carolina gets in-place dry dock for repairs 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Those working inside the cofferdam, he pointed out, had it easier. Doubling Up on Long Johns and Gloves to Keep Tappan Zee Bridge Project Going 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z “He was pretty definitive about it,” White said, as he and Broadwater watched the operation from the cofferdam pier. Divers explore Yorktown’s sunken past 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z With no interpretive signage, it draws scant attention from anglers who beach boats along the crumbling old cofferdam, then cast for trout in the still pool inside. Site unseen: Floodwaters buried a treasure trove at Marmes Rockshelter 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z The cofferdam would enclose the area where the overflow, or spillway dam, was to be built. Our Ship Canal has provided a century of connections 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z For over a century the corps built cofferdams, structures that hold back rivers and enable workers to construct dams on dry river bottoms. On Books Since 1988, Ohio River Dam Project Keeps Rolling Along 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z The cofferdam was an engineering challenge, but the cold was a more visceral one. Doubling Up on Long Johns and Gloves to Keep Tappan Zee Bridge Project Going 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z Rainstorms in late May caused river levels to rise and spill over the cofferdams and into the construction site, Apperson said. State fines CSX contractor in massive fish kill along northeast branch of Anacostia Influential Sen. Warren G. Magnuson paid a visit, soon convincing President Lyndon Johnson to authorize money to build an impromptu, horseshoe-shaped cofferdam to protect the site from rising waters. Site unseen: Floodwaters buried a treasure trove at Marmes Rockshelter 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z At 2 p.m., workmen with shovels opened up a small cut in the cofferdam built at the west end of the Montlake Cut. Our Ship Canal has provided a century of connections 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z The cofferdam project, which involves installing a 40-foot wall around the battleship, and hull repairs are estimated to cost $12 million. Battleship North Carolina slated for facelift 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z BP engineers aborted the plan after methane hydrates, a flammable form of frozen natural gas, began collecting on the cofferdam. BP Says Gulf Spill Well Sealed despite Surface Oil Sheen 2012-10-19T02:15:02.243Z To prevent that, engineers built a steel cofferdam about 750 feet long and 100 feet wide. Superfund Efforts to Clean Waterways Come With a Risk 2012-08-13T18:57:27Z The lower part of C bulkhead was doubled and was in the form of a cofferdam. Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' 2012-04-17T02:00:14.973Z The stream quickly turned into a raging torrent, causing the crowds on the cofferdam to flee the water, dirt and huge timbers that had comprised the rapidly disintegrating cofferdam. Our Ship Canal has provided a century of connections 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z I remember the day well enough, for if I had not have happened to have been having my dinner by myself on the cofferdam, I believe we might have been flooded out and wrecked. Scamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge Occasionally Practised upon Public Works 2011-01-14T03:00:46.103Z The cofferdam was abandoned on the ocean floor. BP Says Gulf Spill Well Sealed despite Surface Oil Sheen 2012-10-19T02:15:02.243Z “I said, ‘What the hell do you mean you’ve lost the cofferdam? Behind Scenes of Oil Spill, Acrimony and Stress 2010-08-27T00:42:00Z The hydrates did not just clog the pipes, they also buoyed up the 125-tonne cofferdam that had been lowered over the leak, lifting it right off the sea bed. The Gulf oil spill: What lies beneath 2010-05-20T13:25:00Z The first task was to build a temporary dam, called a cofferdam. Our Ship Canal has provided a century of connections 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z But the oil is still leaking, despite several previous efforts including a cofferdam which failed to stem the leak. Deepwater Horizon: Send us your ideas for capping the BP oil spill 2010-05-17T10:39:00Z They were one reason for the failure of an earlier effort to lower a 98-ton steel cofferdam over the main leak site. BP installs insertion tube, begins siphoning oil from leaking pipe 2010-05-17T04:00:00Z Deepwater Horizon Unified Command, the body linking organisations responding to the spill, posted the video showing engineers' attempts to install the cofferdam on its YouTube channel this morning. Gulf oil spill: Lowering the cofferdam 2010-05-13T12:09:00Z In the meantime, they will continue to try and position a cofferdam over one of the leaks today. Gulf oil spill: plugging the leak 2010-05-10T13:45:00Z Made of wood piles and walls that sandwiched fine clay, the cofferdam ran for about 2,300 feet in a giant “C” around the locks’ site. Our Ship Canal has provided a century of connections 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Barring a sudden triumph with the blowout preventer, BP plans to try to capture the oil with the containment domes, also known as cofferdams. Gulf Coast oil spill may take months to contain 2010-05-03T14:09:00Z In the meantime, however, the drainage canal had to be blocked off with two cofferdams, to cut off the water from the city and the bayou, and enable the construction of the siphon between. The Industrial Canal and Inner Harbor of New Orleans History, Description and Economic Aspects of Giant Facility Created to Encourage Industrial Expansion and Develop Commerce And Ross, the resident engineer, has already begun preliminaries, with cofferdams and such like mysteries.' Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement A hand pump served to keep the cofferdam dry enough for excavating; but in more open material a power pump is usually required. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs By early August 1912, the waterproof cofferdam was built and the pit within dredged and pumped free of water. Our Ship Canal has provided a century of connections 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Every man who was not digging gingerly at the sand slide was turned to throwing bags of sand on cofferdam and flume edge to hold back the river as long as might be. Still Jim First the Florida Walk canal had to be closed by two cofferdams. The Industrial Canal and Inner Harbor of New Orleans History, Description and Economic Aspects of Giant Facility Created to Encourage Industrial Expansion and Develop Commerce She had two steel cage masts and cofferdams along the unarmored portion of her waterline to protect the ship from being flooded if pierced by a shell between wind and water. Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns Sinking the German U-Boats The grade of the temporary track carried the push cars by gravity to the cofferdams and they were returned by teams, for which purpose a straw and brush road had been built paralleling the track. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs At the river end the excavation was, at some places, almost entirely through the fill and mud and was made in a cofferdam composed chiefly of sheet piles. The New York Subway Its Construction and Equipment A great cofferdam built near the Elephant's base diverted the river into a concrete flume that ran along the foot of one of the mountains. Still Jim While the dredges were at work a wooden sheet piling cofferdam was driven completely around the lock, and about 125 feet from the edge of the bank, to cut off the first quicksand stratum. The Industrial Canal and Inner Harbor of New Orleans History, Description and Economic Aspects of Giant Facility Created to Encourage Industrial Expansion and Develop Commerce The whole was built in a cofferdam, quite dry, and the opening was a holiday. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 429 Volume 17, New Series, March 20, 1852 The cofferdam work was done in connection with the construction of the fourth pier, this pier being the only one coming in the bed of the river to be built entirely new. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs They came muttering some wild jargon about "bulwarks," "bulkheads," "cofferdams," "safeguards," "noble charters," "shields," and "paladiums," "great and glorious birthrights," and other unintelligible gibberish. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I And the night shift began to repair the cofferdam for old Jezebel had dropped suddenly back into her old trail. Still Jim This is one of the largest cofferdams of steel ever driven. The Industrial Canal and Inner Harbor of New Orleans History, Description and Economic Aspects of Giant Facility Created to Encourage Industrial Expansion and Develop Commerce Fifty-six similar wells were driven between the steel and the wooden cofferdams to dry out the second stratum of quicksand, as much as possible, and lessen its flowing character. The Industrial Canal and Inner Harbor of New Orleans History, Description and Economic Aspects of Giant Facility Created to Encourage Industrial Expansion and Develop Commerce Sheet pile cofferdams to solid rock were used for constructing the foundations. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs The foundations were put down by means of a cofferdam which was kept dry by pumping. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs The cofferdam consisted of triple-lap sheet piling, of the Wakefield pattern, the planks being 2 ins. thick, and spiked together so as to give a cofferdam wall 6 ins thick. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs As an added precaution against the danger of a blowout by the third stratum of quicksand, which had a static head of 75 feet, 130 ten-inch artesian wells were driven inside the steel cofferdam. The Industrial Canal and Inner Harbor of New Orleans History, Description and Economic Aspects of Giant Facility Created to Encourage Industrial Expansion and Develop Commerce The piers and abutments were all sunk to rock or hard material by means of timber cofferdams. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs These dump boxes were hinged longitudinally and discharged directly into the cofferdams. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs |
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