Building stone, lathing, plastering, and tiling, common brickwork, ornamental brickwork and terra cotta : lighting fixtures, use and design of lighting fixtures, architectural design (1909)
International Correspondence Schools · Scranton : International Textbook Co. · leaf 207
g\ then, an equal weight of 38 COMMON BRICKWORK 40 brick will bear on each side of this line. Because of thebearing area taken out by the window in the part d, how-ever, there is less area to sup-port the weight than there is atpart e. Therefore, the pressureper square inch on the brickworkat d… … Fig. 18 39. In building a tower whereit is desired to put in a win-dow, two openings opposite eachother are usually left in the shaft,as shown at (<:). This methoddivides the load evenly on bothsides of the opening, and allowsthe tower to settle uniformlythroughout. Afterwards, if onlyone…
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