Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies (1881)
Association of Engineering Societies (U.S.) · New York, [etc.] Board of Managers · leaf 604
ls, the key to the whole structure appears to be destroyed or endangered. The strain upon other columns by the removal of a port of the beams, leaving the slender pintles unsupported at the side, weakens the whole structure and is very apt to be the cause of great damage to or of complete… … This is a mere suggestion. It is held by some mill constructors that the present base, cap and pintle constitute a better mode of construct on than any saddle that can be made, and that no change in modern practice is called for. It is also field by others that when floors or beams are so injured…
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