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 80
eft entirely clear. The inner column should be of sufficient strength to alonesustain the weight to be imposed. In connecting and resting an upper on a lower column, aplate should be placed between the two as shown at Fig. 2 ; a CA S T-IR ON COL UMNS. 59 floor beam or girder also being shown below… … a |-inch-thick shell being as light a column (over 9 inches indiameter) that should be cast for supporting any weight. 108. Dowel Columns.—For buildings where the floor beamsand girders are of wood, the columns for their support are castas shown. The portion of column at girder is cast similar to…
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