San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 265
to keep down sizesof interior columns, and as a consequence, the reduction of concrete andincrease of steel to take its place in compression, until the danger point,at the other extreme of conditions, has been approached. Of course, to discuss the problems of design, structurally, the… … structures as the present figures taken by themselves seem to indicate.But the broad primary lesson would remain unchanged—that, undeniably,in a number of these cases, design has not been governed by an expertstudy of economy, and in some of them, safety has not been well assured.Some of these…
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