Chapter 6
I Construction During The Settlement Years
II The Use Of Timber As A Structural Material
III Structural Steel
IV Concrete Technology
V Housing
VI Industrialised Pre-cast Concrete Housing
VII Ports And Harbours
VIII Roads
IX Heavy Foundations
X Bridges
XI Sewerage
XII Water Engineering
XIII Railways
XIV Major Buildings
XV Airports
XVI Thermal Power Stations
XVII Materials Handling
i For grain:
ii For salt:
iii For sugar
iv For iron ore
v For coal
vi For bauxite:
vii For alumina:
viii For cement:
XVIII Oil Industry
XIX The Snowy Mountains Scheme
XX The Sydney Opera House
XXI The Sydney Harbour Bridge
XXII Hamersley Iron
XXIII North West Shelf
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For grain:
The Kwinana grain terminal in Western Australia is currently the largest and most modern grain receiving, storage and shipping complex in the world. Receiving and unloading is at rates up to 4000 t/h, and loading vessels of more than 100,000 d.w.t. at the remarkable rate of 5000 t/h is possible. The facility includes vertical storage of 390,000 metric tonnes, and horizontal storage of about 524,000 tonnes of wheat. Modern systems of grain cleaning and treatment, dust control, fumigation, and quality control are all under the supervision of a modern computer network.A South Australian engineering invention could save millions of dollars in repair and replacement costs of large concrete grain silos in Australia and overseas. The Tremie Tube, designed by consulting engineers Fargher Maunsell (the South Australian Branch of Maunsell & Partners Pty. Ltd.) considerably reduces the pressures on concrete silo cell walls when grain is being discharged. The Tube, approximately half the height of a concrete grain cell, is centred in the lower half of the cell. It enables the cell to be emptied in two halves, thus reducing pressures on the wall (Fig. 67).
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