Building construction and superintendence, by F.E. Kidder ... (1896)
Kidder, Frank E. (Frank Eugene), 1859-1905 · New York, W.T. Comstock · leaf 55
n a per-manent load of 400,000 pounds.What should be the size of thebeams in the footings, the supporting power of the soil being but 2tons? Ansiver.—Dividing the load by the bearing power of the soil wehave 100 square feet, or 10 X 10 feet, for the area of the footing. Wewill arrange the beams as… … Fig. 16. FOUNDATIONS ON COMPRESSIBLE SOILS. making the value of p for the lower beams = or 3f feet; 2 s we will make 12 inches, or 1. Looking down column headed 2 (Table IV.) we find the nearestprojection above 3f is 4, which is opposite the 9-inch, 27-poundand also the 10-inch, 25.5-pound beams.…
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