Delong Pier Tests at Fort Eustis, Virginia
TA .7 .W34 n o.3- 4 5 0 DELONG PIER TESTS AT FORT EUSTIS, VIRGINIA TECHNICAL REPORT NO. 3.450 February 1957 U. S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station CORPS OF ENGINEERS Vicksburg, Mississippi ARMY.MNC VICKSBUR. MIS. iii PREFACE The Waterways Experiment Station was requested by the Philadelphia District, CE, on 28 January 1955, to make soils foundation investigations and analyses of two sites on the James River at Fort Eustis, Virginia, where an Engineer Test Unit from the Engineer Center, CE, U. S. Army, planned to install a DeLong pier tramway system for use by the Transporta- tion Research and Development Command, Transportation Corps, U. S. Army, for conducting offshore cargo-discharge exercises. The Office, Chief of Engineers, had previously assigned primary responsibility for coordinating all phases of the tests to the Philadelphia District. Basic responsibility for installation of the tramway system, operational tests, and for the foundation tests and analyses were assigned, respectively, to the Engineer Center, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, the Trans- portation Research and Development Command (TRADCOM), Fort Eustis, Virginia, and the Waterways Experiment Station (WES), Vicksburg, Mississippi. The soils investigations were conducted in February, March, and April 1955 by personnel of WES assisted by military personnel of TRADCOM. TRADCOM furnished the floating plant required for the offshore work and personnel to assist WES personnel in the field exploration. Personnel of the Soils Division, Waterways Experiment Station, connected with the investigation were Messrs. W. J. Turnbull, W. G. Shockley, C. I. Mansur, T. B. Goode, and A. L. Mathews. This report was prepared by Mr.
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