Marine engineering structure with wide base using a truss
AssigneeJapan Port Consultants, Ltd.
InventorShigeru Sameshima
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Abstract
A marine engineering structure with a wide base comprising a truss structure constructed by interconnecting a plurality of long trusses spacedly erected vertically and by fixing a floor slab to thin lower end thereof, and prefabricated main body of said marine engineering structure inserted into a space provided by said truss structure.
Claims6
A marine engineering structure, such as a revetment, a breakwater or a quay wall, comprising at vertically extending truss structure having a horizontally arranged base at the lower end thereof, said truss structure comprising a plurality of vertically extending open-sided trusses spaced laterally apart, a plurality of interconnecting members joined to and extending between said trusses, said trusses and said interconnecting members dividing the interior of said truss structures into a plurality of vertically extending multi-sided open spaces extending upwardly above the base of said truss structure, a floor slab fixed to the base of said truss structure and extending transversely of the lower ends of said vertically extending open spaces, and at least one vertically extending prefabricated main body located within one of said open spaces and extending vertically upwardly from said floor slab, and said main body comprising a unitary block-like structure.
A marine engineering structure, as set forth in claim 4, wherein said main bodies comprise hollow square concrete columns.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.