Fred T. Hodgson · Frederick J. Drake and Co. · leaf 458
ONCRETES compressive strength of concrete, and 16,000 as the per-missible stress in steel, it requires 3.125 per cent of steelto furnish the same compressive stress as concrete. Onthe above basis of cost, the compression is evidentlyobtained much more cheaply in concrete than in steel—in fact, at… … Fig. l.-^These Beams Are Designed to Carry the Nameload. The Upper is of Reinforced Concrete, theLower of Plain Concrete. same strength as the concrete, which shows that, nomatter what may be the variation in the comparativeprice, of concrete and steel, steel always furnishes ten-sion at a far…
