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HomeMy WebLinkAbout391 - Specifications 41 - Concrete Retaining Wall. RESOLUTION NO. A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH ADOPTING SPECIFICATIONS NO. 41 FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF CONCRETE RE- TAINING WALLS WITHIN SAID CITY. - - 0 - - - Be it resolved by the Board of Trustees of the City of Newport Beach that the following Specifications, to be known as Specifications No. 41, for the construction of concrete retaining walls in the City of Newport Beach, be, and the same are, hereby adopted. WORK TO BE DONE Under these specifications the Contractor will be required: 1. To excavate or fill in to such an extent and in such manner as may be required by the plans, profiles and cross - sections, and these specifications, the area upon which the improvement hereinafter provided for is to be constructed. 3. To furnish all materials as hereinafter provided for and required for the construction and Completion of the improvement, in accordance with the plans and specifications, and all labor, tools and equipment necessary for the performance of said work. 3. To construct the concrete retaining wall as hereinafter specified... ' , . ;x% CONCRETE RETAINING VALL CONCRETE : The concrete for the retaining wall shall be composed of the following materials and in the following proportions, to- wit: One (1) part of Portland cement by volume to 4.60 parts of mixed aggregate by volume. The mixed aggregate shall be com- posed of a combination of sand and of gravel or broken stone. The sand and the gravel or broken stone shall be measured sepa- rately by volume, and the parts by volume of each of the said materials required, which, when combined will be equal to the 4.60 parts of mixed aggregate hereinbefore mentioned, shall be determined by the following formulas: A - 6.40 C = 5.80 - -A -_ -B D= 5.80 -C Where A is the fineness modulus of the gravel or broken stone. ° B is the fineness modulus of the sand. C equals the parts of sand by volume. D equals parts of gravel or broken stone by volume. - 1 - The fineness modulus of the sans} and the gravel or broken • stone shall be determined by a sieve analysis, using the following sizes of standard sieves: 100 -mesh, 48 -mesh, 28 -mesh, 14 -mesh, 8 -mesh, 4 -mesh, 3/811 -mesh, 3/4n -mesh, and 1 1/211 -mesh. The sum of the percentages of material by weight of the sample coarser than each of the respective sizes of the standard sieves hereinbefore mentioned, divided by 100, is the fineness modulus of the material. The volume of cement per cubic yard of concrete in place shall not be less than 5.90 cubic feet nor more than 6.10 cubic feet. Said materials shall conform to the following specifi- cations: A sack of cement weighing ninety -four (94) pounds net shall be considered as having a volume of one cubic foot. CONCRETE MATERIALS Including cement, sand, gravel, broken stone, and water and for all purposes shall conform to the following specifications: CEMENT All cement shall be Portland Cement, and must conform to the following requirements and be subject to the following tests, which will be open to the Contractor and will be made by the methods and under the conditions prescribed in Specifications C -9 -17, adopted by the American Society for Testing Materials in 1916. (a) . CONSISTENCY: All cement for set tests, test pats, and neat briquettes will be mixed with sufficient water to reduce the cement to normal consistency, as prescribed by the Specifications of the American Society for Testing Materials, hereinbefore re- ferred to. Neat briquettes will be compacted by light tamping. Mortar briquettes shall be mixed to a state of plasticity corre- sponding as nearly as possible to normal consistency in neat bri- quettes. (b) FINENESS: The cement must be evenly ground,and when tested with the following standard sieves, must pass at least the following percentages by weight: - 2 - No. 100 Sieve, having 100 meshes per lineal inch - 92 per cent. No. 200 Sieve, having 200 meshes per lineal inch - 75 per cent. (c) TIME OF SETTING: It shall develop initial set in not less than one hour, nor more than ten hours. (d) TENSILE STRENGTH: Neat briquettes one inch square in section shall attain a minimum strength as follows: - 2 - • At 24 hours in moist air - 175 lbs. At 7 days 1 day in moist At 28 days(l day in moist air air and six in water)- 500 lbs. and 27 days in water) - 600 pounds. Briquettes one inch. square in section, made of one part .of cement, three parts of standard testing sand, shall attain a minimum strength as follows: At 7 days (1 day in moist air and 6 days in water) 200 lbs. At 28 days(1 day in moist air and 27 days in water)275 lbs. The sand test must in all cases show an increase in strength at 28 days over the 7 -day tests. (a) SOUNDNESS: Pate of nedit cement about three inches in diamater, one -half inch thick at the center, and tapering to a thin edge, will be kept in moist air for a period of 24 hours. A pat will then be kept in air at normal temperature and observed at intervals for at least 28 days. Another pat will, after having been kept 24 hours in moist air, be placed in water at normal temperature and maintained for three hours. These pate, to satisfactorily pass the requirements, must remain firm and hard, and must not show any signs of distortion, checking, cracking, blotching or disintegrating. (f) PROTECTION: All cement stored must be protected from the weather and be delivered to the work in the original package of the manufacturer. No cement shall be used which has been mixed in any way with another brand or quality of cement arwhich has been tampered with in any way after being placed in the original package of the manufacturer, nor shall any cement be used from packages containing lumpy cement or which has been reground. SAND DEFINITION OF SAND: The fine, granular material naturally or artificially produced by the disintegration or corrosion of rock. Sand shall be free from oil and organic matter. It shall be thoroughly and 4niformly washed and must not contain more than 3% by weight of silt, loam, clay or other foreign matter. Not less than 15% and not more than 35% shall pass a No. 30 -mesh sieve, and not less than 8516 and not more than 950%, shall pass a no. 4 -mesh sieve, and not less than 950 shall pass a No. 3 sieve, and all shall pass a 3/811 sieve. Briquettes lit square in section, made of one (1) part of cement, conforming to these specifications, and(3) three parts of the above sand, sha111attain a minimum tensile strength equal to that required for standard sand at equal periods of time. - 3 - At least thirty (30) pounds of the material to be tested shall be available for the test. Each sample when ready for the rattler shall consist of five (5) kilograms (eleven pounds) of said material, and shall pass a two and one -half inch screen, sixty Per cent, by weight, shall be retained on a three - quarter inch screen, and all shall be retained on a one -half inch screen. The said sample shall be tested in a rattler consisting of a metal cylinder 28 inches in diameter and twenty inches in length, %� longitudinally mounted on a horizontal shaft and having a shelf four inches wide extending from end to end. ]wring the test the rattler shall be revolved at a rate of between 28 and 30 revolutions per minute. A charge for the rattler shall consist of the said five kilogram sample and fourteen cubical blocks of cast iron with rounded corners and edges, said blocks measuring about one and one -half inches in each dimension and having a weight of five kilograms. After receiving the charge, the rattler shall be given five hundred revolutions. The sample shall then be screened and the portion, by weight, which will pass a 19 -mesh screen, which shall be considered and designated as the loss. WATER. Water shall be clean, free from oil, acid, vegetable matter. The amount of water to be used i n not be less than 5.8 nor more than 6.00 gallons per Cement, which includes water already in the concret e in measuring the water, allowance shall be made for in said materials. - 4 - alkali or a batch shall sack of Portland materials, and water contained GRAVEL OR 13ROKEA STONE. • Coarse aggregate shall be sound crushed or both. of rock or washed coarse aggregate gravel, combination of The particles shall be of clean, hard, tough, durable material, free from vegetab &e or other deleterious sutstances. It shall be free from dirt, mud or stone dust. Coarse aggregate as furnished shall be uniformly graded fmom the largest to the smallest screen sizes given below and in addition shall conform to the following tests: Men analyzed by laboratory screens and sieves coarse aggregate shall conform to grading requirements as follows: Passing screen having 3 1/2" circular openings - 10 CON by wt. Passing screen having 2 1/21, circular openings - 90fo to 1001p by wt. Passing screen having 1 1/2" circular openings - 6 to 8Qj'o by wt. Passing screen having 3/411 circular openings - 300 to 5(�lo by wt. Gravel shall not show a loss of more than 32% and broken stone shall not show a loss of more than 22% when sulijected to the Rattler Test .hereinafter specified. RATTLER TEST At least thirty (30) pounds of the material to be tested shall be available for the test. Each sample when ready for the rattler shall consist of five (5) kilograms (eleven pounds) of said material, and shall pass a two and one -half inch screen, sixty Per cent, by weight, shall be retained on a three - quarter inch screen, and all shall be retained on a one -half inch screen. The said sample shall be tested in a rattler consisting of a metal cylinder 28 inches in diameter and twenty inches in length, %� longitudinally mounted on a horizontal shaft and having a shelf four inches wide extending from end to end. ]wring the test the rattler shall be revolved at a rate of between 28 and 30 revolutions per minute. A charge for the rattler shall consist of the said five kilogram sample and fourteen cubical blocks of cast iron with rounded corners and edges, said blocks measuring about one and one -half inches in each dimension and having a weight of five kilograms. After receiving the charge, the rattler shall be given five hundred revolutions. The sample shall then be screened and the portion, by weight, which will pass a 19 -mesh screen, which shall be considered and designated as the loss. WATER. Water shall be clean, free from oil, acid, vegetable matter. The amount of water to be used i n not be less than 5.8 nor more than 6.00 gallons per Cement, which includes water already in the concret e in measuring the water, allowance shall be made for in said materials. - 4 - alkali or a batch shall sack of Portland materials, and water contained • MEASURING MATERIALS The sand or stone screenings and the gravel or broken stone shall be measured in boxes which shall have the capacity necessary to accurately maintain the proportions hereinbefore mentioned. Said material shall be measured loose, without shaking or compacting. in Cement /sacks, as above specified, shall be dumped directly into the mixer. The water necessary for every batch shall be accurately measured with an apparatus which will prevent the use of more water than above specified. No.mixer whall be used which is not provided with an accurate water measuring device or apparatus. ;FIXING CONCRETE. All mixing of concrete shall be done in a batch mixer. The mixer shall be charged with cement and sufficient sand and gravel or broken stone to conform to the proportions hereinbefore stated. Sufficient watervi not in excess of the quantity above specified shall be added to produce a plastic or quaking concrete which can be handled without causing a separation of the coarse aggregate from the mortar. The mixer drum shall have a speed of not less than 13 revolutions per minute, and every batch of concrete shall be mixed in the drum of the mixer not less than sixty (60) seconds before any portion of the batch is discharged from the said drum At least 75 seconds must elapse between the placing of successive batches in the mixer. CONSISTENCY OF CONCRETE_ The concrete, after being mixed as hereinbefore specified, whall, when subjected to the following test, have a slump of not less than eight per cent nor more than twenty per cent. The slump test shall be made in the following manner: The test tube to be used in making the slump test shall have an inside diameter of eight inches at the base and an inside diameter of four inches at the top, and a perpendicular height of twelve inches. Immediately after the concrete has been mixed, a sufficient quantity thereof shall be placed in four layers in the tapered test tube until the concrete is flush with the top of the tube, each layer shall be thoroughly settled by working with a pointed iron rod. Then the test tube shall be lifted, allowing the concrete to settle or slump. After the pile of concrete has set one minute, its height shall be maaeured and subtracted from the original height of twelve (12) inches, which difference in height is the amount of the slump in inches from which the percentage of slump shall be determined. TESTS OF CONCRETE. The concrete composed of the materials, proportions, consistency, mixing, etc., provided for in these specifications must be of such quality and chardoter of workmanship that it will have an ultimate compressive strength of not less than 3,000 pounds per square inch, or an ultimate modulus of rupture of not less than 600 pounds per square inch. - ' The test specimen for determining compressive strength shall consist of a cylinder of the concrete to be tested 6 inches in diameter, and 12 inches in height. The test specimen for de- termining modulus of rupture shall consist of a beam of the concrete to be tested, 6 inches in width, 6 inches in thickness and 36 inches in length. - 5 - &amples of the concrete to be tested shall be taken immediately after the concrete has ledt the mixer and deposited ' on the sub - grade, and molded in^ the test specimens above mentioned. The concrete shall be thoroughly rodded and care taken to remove air pockets. The freshly.made test specimen shall be struck off and troweled level with the top of the mold. The test specimen, after molding, shall be covered to protect same from injury, and buried in damp sand, and at the end of 48 hours the mold shall be removed and the test specimen covered with sand or earth and maintained in a continuous damp condition for a period of ten (10) days. At the end of twelve (12) days from the day of moldin the specimen, it shall be uncovered and air -cured for sixteen (16� days, and tested at the end of twentyseight (28) days. PLACING CONCRETE The concrete shall be placed in a manner to insure a smooth surface next to the forms, and shall be thoroughly spaded and worked into the recesses of the forms. The concrete shall be spread in layers not exceeding 6„ in thickness, and each layer thoroughly tamped before placing the next layer. RE- MIXING OF CONCRETE No concrete shall be used that shows evidence of having set, or that has become unfit for good work from standing too long or from any other cause, and no re- mixing of concrete will be permitted. FORMS. Forms shall be true and straight, free from warp and of sufficient strength to resist springing out of shape, and shall also be tight to prevent the leakage of mortar. The forms for exposed surfaces shall be sound lumber .planed to uniform thickness, either tangued acid grooved or edges beveled so as to insure tight 4oints. They shall be painted with boiled linseed oil or other preparation equal in quality to prevent the concrete from adhering to the forms. Crude oil, or any material such as tar paper, that will stick to or discolor the concrete will not be permitted to be used. FINISHING. After the concrete has been placed and sufficiently tamped until free mortar appears on the surface, I-I shall be brought to a smooth and even surface by the use of a wooden float after which no disturbing of any character of the surface will be allowed. The application of neat cement to the surface in order to hasten the hardening is prohibited. PROTECTION AND CURING The concrete shall be protected from sun and wind and kept moist for a period of at least ten days. EXPANSION JOINTS. Expansion joints shall be placed for the full width and depth of the concrete retaining wall where indicated on the plans, - 6 - • profiles and cross - sections. Said expansion joints shall be formed by painting the end of the wall with asphalt cement, apply - ingit in such quantities that the thickness will not be less than 1 /8n nor more than 1/411. The asphalt cement used must be homo- genous, and its consistency at the time of using must fall within the limits of 60 and 80 degrees penetration by the District of Columbia Standard. It must be of such quality that it will not become hard or brittle in cold weather, or soft and run out in hot weather. J GENERAL REQUIREMENTS WORK. The Contractor shall, for the price bid, furnish all the materials to execute the work in every respect in a thorough and workmanlike manner, in accordance with the plane and specifications, and to the satisfaction of the Street Superintendent. MATERIALS AND SAMPLES. All materials must be of specified quality and fully equal to the samples, when samples are required. The Contractor shall furnish to the Engineer for test, whenever called for and free of charge, samples of all materials proposed to be used in th-e work. Rejected material must be immediately removed from the work by the Contractor. LABOR. Any overseer, superintendent, laborer or other person employed by the Contractor on the work, who shall perform. work in a manner contrary to these specifications, shall be discharged immediately and such person shall not again be employed on the work. EMINATION OF GROUND. Bidders must examine and judge for themselves as to the location of the proposed work, and the nature of the excavation to be made and the work to be done. SETTING STAKES.. The Contractor shall give 24 hours notice in writing when he will require the services of the Engineer for laying out any portion of the work. He shall dig all stake holes necessary to give lines and levels. The Contractor shall preserve all stakes set for the lines, levels or measurements of the work in their proper places until authorized to remove them by the Engineer, and any expense incurred in replacing said stakes which the Contractor or his subordinates may have failed to preserve shall be borne by the Contractor. PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS. The Contractor shall keep upon the work a copy of the plans and specifications, and access thereto shall at all times be accorded the Engineer or Inspector. - 7 - INSPECTORS The Contractor shall "prosecute work only in .the presence of an Enginee3i or Inspector, appointed by the Street Superintendent, and any cork done in the absence of said Engineer of Inspector ±rill be subject to rejection. The Contractor shall furnish the Engineer and Inspector reasonable facilities for obtaining such information as may be necessary to give them full information at all times respecting the progress and manner of the work and the.. character.of the materials. PRESERVATION OF MONUMENTS. The Contractor shall not disturb any monuments or stakes found on the line of improvements until ordered by the Engineer, and he shall bear the expense of re- setting any monuments or stakes which may be distrubed without orders. REMOVING OBSTRUCTIONS. The Contractor shall remove all trees, stones, debris and other obstructions that may be encountered in making said improvements. OBSERVING CITY ORDINANCES. The Contractor shall observe all the Ordinances of the City of Newport Beach in relation to the obstruction of streeti�, keeping open passageways and protecting the same where they are exposed or dangerous to travel. BARRIERS, LIGHTS, ETC. The Contractor shall take all necessary measures to protect the work and prevent accidents during construction. He shall maintain and provide all necessary barriers, guards, tem- porary bridges, watchmen and lights. PUBLIC UTILITIES. In case it should be necessary to move the property of any owner of a public utility or franchise, such owner will, upon proper application by the Contractor, be notified by the Street Superintendent, to move such property within a specified reasonable time, and the Contractor shall not interfere with said property until after the expiration of the time specified. The right is reserved to the owners of public utilities and franchises to enter upon the street for the purpose of making repairs or changes of their property that may be made necessary by the work. The City shall also have the privilege of entering upon the street for the purpose of repairing culverts or storm 4P drains. LOSS OR DAMAGE All loss or damage arising from any unforseen obstruction or difficulties, either natural or artificial, which may be en- countered in the prosecution of the work, or from any action of the elements, or from any act or omission not authorized by these specifications, on the part of the Contractor, or any agent or person employed by him, shall be sustained by the Contractor. MIE DEFECTIVE TMK . No work which may be defective in its construction or deficient in any of the requirements of these specifications, will be considered as accepted in consequence of the failure of any officer of the City, or Inspector connected with the work, to point out. -said defect or deficiency during construction, and the Contractor shall correct any imperfect work, whenever discovered, before the final acceptance of the work. PROTECTION OF WORK AND CLEANING UP The Contractor shall care for all work until final com- pletion and acceptance. He shall remove all surplus material and rubbish from the work after its completion and before he makes application for the acceptance of the work. FINAL. INSPEOTION. The Contractor shall notify the Street Superintendent when he desires a final inspection of the work, when the latter will, as soon as possible, make the neoessary examination, and if the work is found in compliance with these specifications, the Street Super= intendent will furnish the Contractor with a certificate to that effect. ALLOWABLE VARIATION When in these specifications a maximum or minimum, either in size, percentage or thickness, or relating to quality or character or other matter, is allowed or prescribed, the work shall be ac- cepted as in compliance therewith if within such maximum or minimum so allowed thereby. DEFINITIONS. Vhenever the word "City" is used in these specifications, it refers to the City of Newport Beach, California. Whenever the word "Contractor„ is used in these specifica- tions, it refers to the party or parties of the second part in the agreement for the construction of the work herein specified. Whenever the words "Superintendent" or "Engineerti are used in these specifications, they refer respectively to the 'Street Superintendent" or IfCity Engineer" of the City of Newport Beach, or their authorized agents or inspectors. Passed and approved this day of 1926. i President o the Bo rd of Trustees. C4 ATTEST: yz City Clerk. O'M STATE OF CALIFORNIA } COUNTY OF ORANGE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH } City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution, being Resolution No. ?VL, was regularly introduced and duly adopted by the Board of Trustees of said City, signed by the president of said Board, and attested by the City Clerk, all at a regular meeting thereof held on the day of 1926, and that the same was adopted by the following vote, to -wit: AYES: Trustees ,A lkr�Fson, %oun9 iY��di+*ro�, NOES: Trustees, noh e ABSENT: Trustees. City ClerjW of the City of Newport Beach. - 10 -