FM 5-35 Corps of Engineer Reference Data (1944)

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FM 5-35  Corps of Engineers Reference Data (March 1944); 263 pages, Price 30.00 {Item No.1557}

• Chapter 1. General; 2 paragraphs  Price .50 {Item No.1557-1} [Includes: Purpose and scope (of the manual)]
• Chapter 2. Bivouacs; 1 paragraph  Price .50 {Item No.1557-2} [Includes: No Dispersion provided for air attack, Dispersion provided for air attack]
• Chapter 3. Explosives and Demolitions; 11 pages, 7 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.1557-3} [Includes: General, Properties of explosives (table), Cutting timber (table), Cutting steel, Breeching Rock (table), concrete, brick and masonry, Pressure charge, Crater charge, Culverts, Demolition of bridges] [Comment: Basic US Army WWII practice, simplistic by modern practice, includes some older explosives not generally used after WWII]
• Chapter 4. Field Fortifications; 18 pages, 6 illus.  Price 2.00 {Item No.1557-4}
• Section I. General; 5 pages  Price .50 {Item No.1557-5} [Includes: Frontages held by units on defensive (table), Man hours required to clear 100 square yards (table), Required thickness of overhead cover for protection against penetration plus explosion (table), Thickness required for protection against single shots by direct fire weapons (table), Thickness of materials required to protect against penetration of fragments from projectiles and bombs exploding at a distance of 50 feet (table)]
• Section II. Emplacements; 1 page  Price .50 {Item No.1557-6} [Includes: Excavation and camouflage data for weapons emplacements (table)]
• Section III. Entrenchments; 1 page  Price .50 {Item No.1557-7} [Includes: Time and labor for constructing entrenchments (table), Sandbag revetments]
• Section IV. Shelters; 11 pages, 6 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.1557-8} [Includes: Typical cover for cut and cover shelter, Minimum thickness of burster layer in inches (table), Relative thickness of materials required to provide same overhead protection (table), Cut and cover shelter constructed of dimensional lumber (plan), Capacities in unventilated shelters, Surface shelter constructed of circular section of corrugated metal (plan), Standard air lock (plan), Cut and cover shelter constructed of dimensional lumber (bill of material), Circular surface corrugated metal shelter (bill of material), Standard air lock (bill of material)]
• Chapter 5. Obstacles; 9 pages, 7 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.1557-9}
• Section I. Antitank mine fields; 5 pages, 3 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.1557-10} [Includes: Hasty mine field, Deliberate mine field, Vehicle capacity for antitank mines (table), Rates of construction of Obstacles: Four row post obstacle (table), 100 feet of antitank ditch (table), Enemy tank characteristics (table)]
• Section II. Barbed Wire; 2 pages  Price .50 {Item No.1557-11} [Includes: Estimated barded wire requirements, Wire entanglement materials (table), Materiel and labor required for 300 yards of wire entanglement (table)]
• Section III. Chemical contamination; 1 page (1 table)  Price .50 {Item No.1557-12}
• Chapter 6. Camouflage; 5 pages, 2 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.1557-13}
• Section I. Flat tops; 2 pages, 2 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.1557-14} [Includes: Flat topped camouflage nets]
• Section II. Materials; 4 pages  Price .50 {Item No.1557-15} [Includes: Time and labor for garnishing fish nets for flat-tops (table), Camouflage paints, Issue nets and netting (table), Garnishing materials (table); Wire, steel, carbon, annealed, zinc coated (table); Adhesives (table)]
• Chapter 7.  Roads and Airfields; 58 pages, 18 illus.  Price 6.00 {Item No.1557-16}
• Section I. Roads, Paragraphs 46-47; 8 pages, 1 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.1557-17} [Includes: Minimum Design Requirements, Standards of Design and Construction: Thickness of base and surfacing or pavement, Chart for estimating required thickness of base or of base and surface or pavement, Minimum CBR (California bear ratio) values and minimum compacted thicknesses of base courses and flexible type pavements, Concrete pavement thickness required in areas not subject to frost, Base course concrete pavement thickness required in areas subject to frost, Quality of materials for base and surfacing, Gradation liimits for stable mixtures, Typical cross section, Typical cross sections for military roads]
• Section I, Paragraphs 47-48; 12 pages, 4 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.1557-18} [Includes: Drainage, Retaining walls, Time and materials esitmates: Volumnes of cuts and fills in cubic yards per 100 feet of length (table), Clearing and grubbing by hand (table), Earth excavated by hand (table), Spreading road materials by hand (table), Production capacity of equipment - average conditions: Clearing and grubbing (table), Drainage ditches (table), Excavation (table), Embankments (table), Subgrade preparation (table), Base course construction (table), Surface treatments (table), Pavement construction (table), Aggregate production (Table)]
• Section I, Paragraph 49; 7 pages  Price 1.00 {Item No.1557-19} [Includes: Bituminous construction: Bituminous materials (Table), Surface treatment, Mixed in place, Penetration macadam, Typical uses of bituminous materials for fair weather construction (table)
• Section I, Paragraph 50; 17 pages, 5 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.1557-20} [Includes: Reference Data and Useful Tables: Linear foot of spread of gravel or crushed rock to produce required thickness (table); Cubic yards, loose measure, gravel or crushed rock required per linear unit of road (table); Square yards per 100 feet, per 100 yards, and mile for various surface widths (table); Pounds of aggregate per square yard required for various thicknesses of compacted layers (table), Average weights of aggregates and soils per cubic yard (table); Trail charges and drill hole spacing for quarrying operations (table); Storage capacity curves (table), Storage capacity of a conical pile, Storage capacity of triangular pile, Computing base dimension; Average weights and volumes of bituminous materials (table): SC, MC, and RC Asphalts, Asphalt cements, Emulsified asphalts; Distribution table for bituminous materials (table); Gallons of bitumen required per mile at various rates of application per square yard (table); Contents of cylindrical and elliptical tanks (horizontal)(table), U.S.standard sieve data (table); Horizontal and vertical curves (illustrated formulas), Earth fill volumes (illustrated formulas); Repair of mine craters (table)(with shovels, etc.), Man days and materials per mile required for maintenance of two lane surfaces road - average conditions, exclusive of supervision (table)
• Section I, Paragraph 51; 2 page  Price .50 {Item No.1557-21} [Includes: Road expedients: Man hours for road expedients (table)(one lane plank and corduroy roads); Materials required for one lane plank road; Materials required for one lane corduroy road (table); Materials required for plank tread road]
• Section II. Airdromes; 15 pages, 8 illus.  Price 2.00 {Item No.1557-22} [Includes: Dimensions grades, and clearances for advanced landing fields, field airdromes, and base airdromes: Criteria for landing strips, runways and approach zones (illustrated): Criteria for longitudinal grade along center line of landing strip, Criteria for cross slope; Recommended dimensions and clearances for airdromes (table), Criteria for taxiways (illustrated), Recommended widths and clearances for taxiways (table), Dimensions of aircraft for design of facilities (table) (P-38, P-39, P-40, P-47, P-51, P-63, A-20, A-24, A-25, A-26, A-28, A-29, A-31, A-35, A-36, B-17 to B29, C-45 to C60); Hard standings, Thickness design of runways, taxiyways, hard standings, and aprons: Wheel loads for thicknesses design of runways, taxiways, hard standings and aprons, Procedure (design)(illustrated), Allover fields, Field Requirements for artillery liaison planes (L-type): Aircraft characteristics, Minimum requirements for landing strips, Steel landing mats: Characteristics and comparison of steel landing mats (table), Transportation of steel landing mats on army trucks and trailers (table), Transportation of steel landing mats on military theater of operations railway cars (table)]
• Chapter 8. Bridges and Stream Crossing Equipment; 80 pages, 32 illus.  Price 8.00 {Item No.1557-23}
• Section I. Bridge classification and design; 36 pages, 5 illus.  Price 4.00 {Item No.1557-24} [Includes: Use of Posted Bridges: Posting of bridges, Marking of vehicle, Vehicle classification (table); Values gross weight factor, G (table), Field approximations in design of military bridges (table), Dead loads of highway bridge deck in pounds per linear foot (table), Types of loads on bridges (table); Weights wheel bases, and concentrated load equivalents of typical and critical military vehicles (16 page table), Design of footings (design table); Design of trestle bents (table); Design of wood stringers (table)(Safe gross load in pounds for rectriangular wooden stringers 1 inch wide); Methods designing and estimating capacity wood stringers (2 page design table); Design of steel stringers (table); Methods of designing and estimating capacity of steel stringers (design example 2 page table); Capacity of masonry arch bridges (illustration and table); Concrete floor slab brigdes: Capacity of concrete slad bridges (table); Capacity of concrete T-beam bridges and bridges with steel stringers and concrete floor slab (illustrated); Capacities of reinforced concrete arch bridges (table); Suspension bridges (design table); Bridge Card (For field use in estimating bridge capacities including posted, bailey, floating, wood and steel bridges)]
• Section II. Standard fixed bridges; 15 pages, 5 illus.  Price 2.00 {Item No.1557-25} [Includes: Standard fixed bridges (illlustration and table); Standard timber bridge (illustration); Table of equivalent vehicle weights of common vehicles over spans of 10 to 40 feet (2 page table); Steel trestle fixed bridge, 10 ton (illustration); Vehicle and posted capacities 10 ton steel trestle fixed bridge (table); Steel box girder fixed bridge, H-10 (illustration); Vehicle and posted capacities of steel box girder fixed bridge, H-10 (table); Steel box girder fixed bridge, H-20 (illustration); Vehicle and posted capacities of steel box girder fixed bridge, H-20 (table); Steel panel fixed bridge, bailey type (illustration); Vehicle and posted capacities stee panel fixed bridge, bailey type (table)]
• Section III. Standard floating equipage; 29 pages, 22 illus.  Price 3.00 {Item No.1557-26} [Includes: Boats (table); Rafts (table); Standard floating bridges (table); Assault boats: M1 (illustration and capacity table), M2 (illustration and capacity table), Storm boat (illustration and capacity table), Utility powerboat (illustration and capacity table); 2 Man canvas pneumatic Reconnaissance Boat (illustration); Reconnaissance Boats (capacity table); 6 Ton pneumatic float (illustration and capacity chart); 12 Ton pneumatic float (illustration and capacity chart); Assault boat ponton (illustration and capacity chart); 10-Ton ponton (illustration and capacity chart); 25 Ton ponton (illustration and capacity chart); Foot bridge M1938 (illustration); Infantry support raft (illustration); Vehicle and posted capacities of infantry support rafts (table); Expedient assault boat bridge with double treadway deck (illustration); Expedient assault boat bridge with triple treadway deck (illustration and capacity table); Pneumatic ponton bridge M3 (illustration and capacity table); Three float pneumatic ponton raft (illustration); Normal 25 ton ponton bridge (illustration); Vehicle and posted capacities of 25 ton ponton bridge (table); 25 Ton ponton raft (illustration); Steel treadway bridge M1 (illustration); Steel treadway bridge M2 (illustration); Fixed steel treadway bridge (illustration); Vehicle and posted capacities of steel treadway bridges M1 and M2 (table)]
• Chapter 9. Railways; 8 pages, 2 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.1557-27} [Includes: Requirements: Loadings, Gauge; Roadbed: Roadbed dimensions, Standard gauge roadbed section on embankment (illustration), Standard railway bridge and tunnel clearance (illustration), Rails , Curves, Superelevation, Materials; Estimation of railway bridge capacity: Steel stringers (3 page table); Wood stringers (table); Tabular values]
• Chapter 10. Water Supply; 8 pages, 2 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.1557-28} [Includes: Daily water requirements (table); Capacities of engineer water supply equipment (table); Determination of quantity of water: Stream flow, Springs Wells, Free flowing artesian wells (table); Discharge from full flowing horizontal pipes (illustration); Discharge from partially filled pipes (nomograph)]
• Chapter 11. Materials; 39 pages  Price 4.00 {Item No.1557-29}
• Section I. Strength of materials formulas; 7 pages, 4 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.1557-30} [Includes: Beams: Effects of applied loads: Simple beam - single concentrated load at any position, Simple beam - uniformly distributed load of fixed length, Simple beam - two unequal concentrated loads moving at a fixed distance apart, Simple beam - series of unequal concentrated loads moving at fixed distances apart; Resistance to applied loads: Movement: General, Wood beams, Rolled steel beams, Built up steel girders; Shear: General, Resisting shear: Wood beams, Steel beams and girders; Columns and posts: General, Wood]
• Section II. Wood; 5 pages  Price .50 {Item No.1557-31} [Includes: Design data for beams, stringers, and posts for bridges: Structural timber (table), Foreign woods (table); Common commerial sizes of lumber (table); Contents of lumber in board feet (table)]
• Section III. Steel; 3 pages  Price .50 {Item No.1557-32} [Includes: Working stresses for design of steel military bridges; Properties of selected American standard I-beams (table); Properties of selected wide flange beams (table)]
• Section IV. Concrete and masonry; 17 pages  Price 2.00 {Item No.1557-33} [Includes: Concrete materials: Cement, Fine aggregate, Gradation of fine aggregate for concrete, Coarse aggregate, Gradation of coarse aggregate for concrete; Strength of concrete: Relation between water cement ratio and 28 day compressive breaking strength for concrete made under average military conditions (table), Compressive breaking strength concrete at various ages in percent of 28 day compressive breaking strength (table); Relation between compressive strength, tensile strength, and bending strength (modulus of rupture (table); Measurement of aggregates: Mix proportions, Volume measurement of aggregates, Separate and combined aggregate volumes, Weight measurements, Relation between weight and volume, Average dry compacted unit weights of concrete aggregate (table); Proportioning procedure: Recommended water cement ratios for various types concrete construction work (table), Recommended values of slump and maximum size of coarse aggregates (table); Proportions, batch quantities, and unit quantities for concrete mixes (3 page table); Field adjustment of proportions (2 tables), Batching, Mixing, Forms: Material, Design, Yoke spacings for various sizes and heights of columns (table); Average weights of materials used in concrete construction (table); Allowable working stresses: Reinforced concrete (3 pages of formulas), Masonry (table)]
• Section V. Soils and foundations; 7 pages  Price 1.00 {Item No.1557-34} [Includes: Soil classification (WWII standards)(large chart), Engineering characteristics of soils, Plastic limit test, Data on average soils (table), Allowable foundation bearing pressures (table), Bearing values of piles (table)]
• Chapter 12. Rigging; 4 pages  Price .50 {Item No.1557-35} [Includes: Fiber ropes, wire ropes, and chains: Properties of rope (table), Properties of chains (table), Sling load chart (chart), Safe load of hooks (table), Relation of sheaves and wire rope diameters (table), Power winches (table); Anchorages: Holdfasts. Deadman (table); Safe capacity of spruce timber as gin pole in normal operation (table)]
• Chapter 13. Miscellaneous Data; 19 pages  Price 2.00 {Item No.1557-36} [Includes: Equivalents of measure: Lengths (table), Surfaces and areas (table), Volume and capacity (table), Masses and weights (table), Forces on weights per units of area (presssure)(table), Forces of weights per units of volume (density)(table), Velocity (table); Power, rate of energy, and heat (table); Weights of common materials (table); Alignment charts for converting feet to meters and miles to kilometers (chart); Alignment charts for converting fahrenheit to Centigrade and U.S.gallons to Imperial gallons (chart); Functions of number (table); Inches to decimals of a foot (table); Natural Trigonometric functions (table); Trigonometric solution of triangles; Useful formulae: Areas, Volumnes; Sizes of nails (table)]
• Index; 3 pages  Price .50 {Item No.1557-37}