Building construction and superintendence, by F.E. Kidder ... (1896)
Kidder, Frank E. (Frank Eugene), 1859-1905 · New York, W.T. Comstock · leaf 295
Tension BarsN^sfefc*.;-^ ^ Auxiiiarii 3ar. Fig. 18 1 houses in various portions of California, as well as in many otherbuildings. A section of a flat floor in the California Academy of Science,15x22 feet, was tested in 1890 with a uniform load of 415 pounds persquare foot, and the load left in… … Fig. 188 A. at the centre of the 22-foot span was only % inch. It was estimatedby the architects that the saving by using this construction throughoutthe building, over the ordinary use of steel beams and hollow tiiearches of the same strength, and with similar cement-finished floorson top,…
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