Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work ... (1907)
American School of Correspondence · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 23
. 1. Masonry walls of brick or stone, supporting their own weight andthe adjacent floor aud roof loads. 2. Masonry walls supporting their own weight, but no floor or roofloads. 3. Masonry walls not self-supporting, 4. Walls of iron, copper or other metal. 5. Walls of concrete. Load=bearing Walls.… … Fig I Self-supporting Walls. Walls of the second class are gen-erally of brick or stone, and have contained in them steel elementscarrying the floor and roof loads. Tliese elements consist of verti-cal members spaced at intervals in thewall and called the wall columns, and,between them, horizontal…
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