A handbook of design containing tables, standards and useful information appertaining to the "steelcrete" system (1911)
The Consolidated Expanded Metal Companies · The Consolidated Expanded Metal Companies · leaf 165
d some standardlimit is required if this test is to be made the basis of acceptance.The great advantage of this test is that it can be made at any-time in the shop, without the expense attaching to tension tests,and by the man who uses or makes up the material. Johnson,The Materials of Construction… … is generally done by blows of a hammer, although steady pressure is sometimes employed. Notwith-standing that no numerical results are obtained from the cold-bend test, except the final angle of bending,the general information that it gives is of the highest importance, so that it has been said…
