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 238
rod. Fig. 25 represents an arch near the side of a buildingwhere there is no strength in the wall to take up the lateralthrust. The crack a is the result. 32. Fig. 26 is an illustration of an arched doorway inthe corner of a department-store building. This arrange-ment does not even satisfy the… … Fig. 25 24 ORNAMENTAL BRICKWORK §41 push out the walls of the building. When an arch must beused in such a place, it should be stiffened with some formof beams put into it, or the two skew backs should be tiedtogether. By using this latter method, of course the tie-rod
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