Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies (1881)
Association of Engineering Societies (U.S.) · New York, [etc.] Board of Managers · leaf 138
nches below. A final test on this slab was made by drop- ping a weight of 185 pounds (18 inches square on the end) 11 feet upon the broken slab, after the false floor had been removed, with- out apparently doing further damage. This floor was designed to carry a breaking load of 1600 pounds per… … Fig. 7. buildings under construction, and therefore give a fair and practical idea of the strength of expanded metal and concrete flat slab cover- ings for floors, roofs, etc. Without giving more details than are shown by the tables for tests similar to No. 1, we will compare Nos. 10 and 11. In…
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