Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work ... (1907)
American School of Correspondence · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 23
loadsare kept off the walls, except tlieweight of the masonr^y itself. Curtain Walls. Walls of thethird class diiler from the pre-ceding in tiiat they themselvesmust be supported on the steelframework. The walls themselvesmay consist of brick, or of brickwith stone or terra cotta tiinnninLsor… … SECTIONTHROUGH WALL SECTIONTHROUGH FLOOR-. 12 STEEL CONSTRUCTION spandrel. beams, since, instead of simply spanning the opening,they take all the load of the wall between the wall girders andthe head of the opening, and carry this load to the columns.The wall girders, too, besides the floor load,…
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