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t contact with the entire surface of thearmoring. In America the Ransome system is mostextensively used—a system in which a bar of twisted HOW TO USE THEM 457 steel is employed. Small sections are better than largeones, for by their use we obtain a more uniform dis-tribution of stress in the steel;… … Fig. 5.—The Monier System. Expanded metal meshing (Fig. 6) is increasingly em-ployed, more particularly in the lighter forms of con-struction. It consists of sheets of metal which havebeen mechanically slit and expanded, so as to producea network. This type of reinforcement has many andobvious ad…
