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Architectural engineering. With special reference to high building construction, including many examples of Chicago office buildings (1895)

Freitag, Joseph Kendall · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 174

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on of the knee-brace system of wind brac-ing was employed in the new Fort Dearborn Building(1894-95,) by Jenney & Mundie, architects, Chicago. In thiscase a wind load of 40 lbs. per sq. ft. was taken, and theassumption made that 25 per cent of this wind load wouldbe resisted by the rigid… … I© © ©©©©

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