Notes on Building Construction, Part 1Rivingtons, 1875 - Building |
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abut arrangement ashlar bead beam bearing binders blocking course boards bressummer brickwork bridging joists building built cast-iron ceiling joists centre chamfered chimney common rafters corbels cornice depth described door dovetail dowel edge elevation ends English bond extrados face feet fillet fixed flat Flemish bond floor frame gauge girder groove gutter head headers horizontal inches thick inside iron king bolt king post laid lead length lower masonry mortar mortise mortise and tenon moulded nailed notched opening panel pieces Plan of Courses prevent principal rafters purlins quoins raglet rail rebate relieving arch ridge right angles roof rubble sash SCANTLINGS scarf Section on A.B secured shown in Fig side sill slates soffit sometimes span square strain strap stretchers struts style tenon tie beam tie rod timber Tredgold truss vertical joints voussoirs wall plates water bar wedges weight width window wood bricks wood lintel
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Page 1 - Walls are constructions of stone, brick, or other materials, and serve to retain earth or water, or in buildings to support the roof and floors and to keep out the weather. The following points should be attended to in the...
Page iii - COURSE OF BUILDING CONSTRUCTION. Notes on Building Construction. Arranged to meet the requirements of the Syllabus of the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education, South Kensington.
Page vii - He should be able to draw in elevation, from given dimensions, a framed partition with door openings. He should be able to draw in elevation, and give vertical and horizontal sections of, solid door frames and window frames. He should be able to describe, by drawings, beadings of different kinds, dovetailing, cross-grooving, rebating, plough-grooving, chamfering, rounded nosing, and housings.
Page vi - He should undeIsiand the object of bond in brickwork— ie English bond, Flemish bond, or English bond with Flemish facing, and how it is attained in walls up to three bricks thick in the following instances — viz. footings with offsets, angles of buildings, connection of external and internal walls, window and door openings with reveals and square jambs, external gauged arches (camber, segmental, and semi-circular), internal discharging arches over lintels, and inverted arches. He should know...
Page 39 - Stones. In order that the stones may not be liable to be broken across, no stone of a soft material, such as the weaker kinds of sandstone and granular limestone, should have a length greater than 3 times its depth or rise; in harder materials the length may be 4 to 5 times the depth.
Page 56 - To proportion the area of each surface to the pressure which it has to bear, so that the timber may be safe against injury under the heaviest load which occurs in practice, and to form and fit every pair of such surfaces accurately, in order to distribute the stress uniformly.
Page 2 - Fig 116, they form what is called a straight joint. Straight joints split up and weaken the part of the wall in which they occur, and should therefore be avoided. A good bond breaks the vertical joints, both in the length and thickness of the wall, giving the bricks or stones a good lap over one another in both directions, so as to afford as much hold as possible between the different parts of the wall.
Page vi - ... -f, •§-, or other fraction of full size, or of any given scale or drawing : and the meaning of such terms as plan, elevation (front, back, or side), section, sectional elevation. He should understand the object of bond in brickwork, ie English bond, Flemish bond, or English bond with Flemish facing, and how it is attained in walls up to three bricks thick, in the following instances — viz. footings with offsets, angles of buildings, connection of external and internal walls, window...
Page 37 - When a stratified stone ie placed vertically, and so that the layers of which it is composed are parallel to its face, they are apt to be split off in succession by the action of the weather. Moreover, a stone in this position has not so much strength to resist crushing as it has when placed on its natural bed. In a cornice with overhanging or undercut mouldings, the natural bed should be placed vertically and at right angles to the face ; for if placed horizontally, layers of the overhanging portions...
Page 27 - Brick Arches are those in which the bricks are not cut, or rubbed, so as to form voussoirs accurately radiating to a centre. The joints are therefore wider at the " extrados " than they are at the