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 168
is method of testing is cited by Johnson in The Materials of Construction as approachingmore nearly to the severe usages of actual practice than does the tension test, with its elastic limit, ultimatestrength, elongation and reduction of area. In referring to the value of the cold bend test,… … Even more convincing than anything that has been said heretofore in this pamphlet in reference toductility and uniformity of quality is the illustration of the cold twisted strands of Steelcrete mesh hereshown. No indication of fracture can be detected. This test, like the one shown on the opposite…
