Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work (1912)
American Technical Society · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 24
1. Masonry walls of brick or stone, supporting tlieir own weight andthe adjacent floor and Ioof 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 metai. 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. These elements consist of verti-cal members spaced at intervals in thewall and called the wall columns, and,between them, horizontal…
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