Architectural iron and steel : and its application in the construction of buildings, including beams and girders in floor construction, rolled iron struts, wrought and cast-iron columns, fire-proof columns, column connections, cast-iron lintels, roof trusses, stairways, elevator enclosures, ornamental iron, floor lights, and skylights, vault lights, doors, and shutters, window guards and grilles, etc., etc., with specification of ironwork and selected papers in relation to ironwork, from a revision of the present law before the legislature affecting public interests in the city of New York, in so far as the same regulates the construction of buildings in said city, tables selected expressly for this work, of the properties of beams, channels, tees and angles, used as beams, struts and columns, weights of iron and steel bars, capacity of tanks, areas of circles, weights of circular and square cast-iron columns, weights of substances, tables of squares, cubes, etc., weights of sheet copper, brass and iron, etc (1892)
Birkmire, Wm. H. (William Harvey), 1860-1924 · New York Wiley · leaf 62
e sum of the ceiling and roof loads is then taken, pro-ceeding with the strain diagram as before. The weight of ceiling, in addition to that scaled from thestrain diagram, is the strain on ties CL and EG. For example: TRUSSES. 41 the point at joint CLEFD supports 10,000 pounds of roof, thepoint at… … ■m/^A T ——— L..-».t —X-.. ■ fU^ Ui ■»-— —IT ■ ji gram being completed, the 5000 pounds is to be added to thescaled distance on cl, for the reason that by carrying 5000pounds to point DF, CL is required to perform its portion of 42 ARCHITECTURAL IRON AND STEEL. the complete truss, and the weight of…
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