The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 240
o\e and the fact thatreinforced beams are by some regarded as excessive in depth. Generallyspeaking, there is a rai)id increase in safety and economy with each slightincrease in the depth of a l>eani, trussed or jilain. and it almost seems, fromthe range of proportionate depths in practice, that… … Probably any further serious improvement in the present type of beammay prove impossible, and it may be found that the traditional parallelrectangular form has been too readily adopted for concrete beams. Thegreat attention paid to meeting the tensile weakness of concrete has per-haps obscured the…
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