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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 73

Uses of Cement

Uses of Cement.

There is no material in modern engineering that is more [unclear: usef] architects and engineers than Portland Cement; and none [unclear: which] been so successful in its adaptation to so many and varied works.

It is probable that before many years its application will [unclear: supp] the use of iron for various purposes, as it has already to a great [unclear: en] taken the place of timber.

The following amongst many others, are some of the [unclear: nume] examples of its utility:—

Water tanks of concrete are less costly than iron ones, they [unclear: image not readable] more easily cleansed and everlasting, also the water is kept cooler.

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Tanks for the storage of liquid manure should in two seasons repay the cost of outlay, besides preventing the offensive and wasteful practice of allowing a valuable product to be lost, with its ever-present danger of generating malignant fevers.

Pig-styes should be built entirely of concrete. Sheep-dips are easily built in concrete. Cow-sheds, stable and stockyard floors, cessits, garden walls, dwarf walls, piles for wooden buildings, garden paths, steps &c., are all most economically built in concrete.

For street kerbings and water channels nothing is more suitable than neatly plastered concrete; having no joints to obstruct the flow or set up accumulation, they become self cleaning.

"The Monier System" of concrete construction is well worthy of a trial. The object of this method is to obtain the greatest strength and efficiency with the use of the least possible quantity of concrete, This is effected by embedding wire netting in the concrete, which reduces the possibility of fracture to a minimum; the guage of netting varies with the class of work. In bridge work inch rod iron is used.

The system has been extensively employed on the Continent of Europe for bridges, tunnel linings, sewers, and floors of buildings; in the latter case it is especially of service in preventing collapse after fire.

N.B—We shall be very pleased at any time to assist architects or engineers in making tests of this construction.