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 219
200 ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING. proper concentric bearings over the caisson piers. Fromthese bearings the load was distributed over the wholemasonry-work by means of large steel bolsters, thus … Fig. i20. diminishing and equalizing the unit-pressure. A cross-section of the caissons and cantilever girders is shown inFig. 120. CHAPTER XI.UNIT-STRAINS—SPECIFICATIONS. The question of unit-strains will naturally vary to a con-siderable extent with the personal opinions of the designer—the more…
Building, Iron and steel
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