Radford's cyclopedia of construction; carpentry, building and architecture. Based on the practical experience of a large staff of experts in actual constrcution work (1909)
Johnson, Alfred Sidney, 1860-, Radford, William A., 1865- · Chicago Radford Architectural Co · leaf 49
eir flexure. With a view to protecting the bottomflanges of the steel beams, it is sometimes specified thatthey shall be encased with one inch or two inches inthickness of concrete, as in Fig. 25. With the forms for thestilting in position, this is somewhat difficult; the concreteis simply pushed… … Fig. 26. Beinforcing around Beam Flanges. the bare places are at the first opportunity filled up witha dab of mortar; sometimes coarse grout is run under theflanges. It is doubtful whether the flanges are efficientlyprotected in this way, and whether a wrapping of ex-panded metal lathing around the…
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