San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 514
nable to resist. The fifth floor was a little over two weeksold at the time of the accident. The constantly increasing load was sufficientto destroy each of the succeeding floors and to carry down with them all theinterior construction. The building was designed to carry a live load of forty pounds… … FiRute 6 strength of the girders of the first floor in accordance with the parabolic theoryshows that there would exist a fibre stress of about 11,000 pounds per squareinch on the steel and 400 pounds per square inch on the concrete for live anddead loads. On the ten by ten inch columns in the…
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