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000 Cast iron 000 reduced apartment houses Axial compression BEARING VALUE Bending moment bolts brick cinder concrete clay coarse aggregate compression members compressive strength computations Concentrated load Concrete and Reinforced connections construction crete curtain walls dead load diameter dimension distance duction effective length elastic limit elasticity engineer eye-bars flange angles floor slabs forms foundations Gordon's formulæ inspector lattice bars less masonry massive concrete maximum minimum thickness mixing mortar neutral axis office buildings PERMISSIBLE UNIT STRESSES-IRON Pin holes Plate Girders Portland cement POUNDS PER SQUARE pressure proportioned purlins radius of gyration reduced by Gordon's reinforced concrete rivets rolled beams Rolled steel rollers Rubble Schneider's Shear snow load span Specimens spliced Spruce square foot SQUARE INCH stiffeners stone concrete succeeding floor supports surface TABLE 14 F tension tion total live load trusses ultimate strength unit stresses wall-plates warehouses WEIGHT width Yellow pine
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Page 20 - At least one tensile and one bending test shall be made from each melt of steel as rolled. In case steel differing | in.
Page 21 - Material which, subsequent to the above tests at the mills, and its acceptance there, develops weak spots, brittleness, cracks, or other imperfections, or is found to have injurious defects, will be rejected at the shop and shall be replaced by the manufacturer at his own cost.
Page 38 - The ingredients of concrete should be thoroughly mixed to the desired consistency, and the mixing should continue until the cement is uniformly distributed and the mass is uniform in color and homogeneous...
Page 21 - Steel for pins and rollers shall be stamped on the end. Rivet and lattice steel and other small parts may be bundled with the above marks on an attached metal tag.
Page 23 - Eyebars. Eyebars shall be straight and true to size, and shall be free from twists, folds in the neck or head, or any other defect. Heads shall be made by upsetting, rolling, or forging. Welding will not be allowed. The form of the heads will be determined by the dies in use at the works where the eyebars are made, if satisfactory to the engineer, but the manufacturer shall guarantee the bars to break in the body with a silky fracture, when tested to rupture.
Page 15 - ... inches or more than eight times the thickness of the first plate. Where two or more plates are used on the flanges, they shall either be of equal thickness or shall decrease in thickness outward from the angles.
Page 19 - Specimens for tensile and bending tests for plates, shapes and bars shall be made by cutting coupons from the finished product, which shall have both faces rolled and both edges milled to the form shown by Fig.
Page 20 - For material ?i in. or under in thickness, flat on itself; for material over ?« in. to and including 1 '•< in. in thickness, around a pin the diameter of which is equal to the thickness of the specimen; and for material over 1^4 in.
Page 24 - Steel work, before leaving the shop, shall be thoroughly cleaned and given one good coating of pure linseed oil, or such paint as may be called for, well worked into all joints and open spaces.
Page 22 - Rivets shall look neat and finished, with heads of approved shape, full and of equal size. They shall be central on shank and grip the assembled pieces firmly. Recupping and calking will not be allowed. Loose, burned or otherwise defective rivets shall be cut out and replaced. In cutting out rivets great care shall be taken not to injure the adjacent metal.