The Architects' and Builders' Handbook: Data for Architects, Structural Engineers, Contractors, and Draughtsmen |
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allowable angles arch axis bars bolts brick building Carnegie Steel Company cement center of gravity channels Chapter compression concentrated load construction Cotang cross-section deflection depth determined diameter distance distributed load equal Example excavation factor of safety fiber-stress fire-proof flange floor floor-construction Formula foundation-bed ft in ft given heavy line horizontal iron joists lath lb lb lb per sq live load masonry material maximum bending metal method modulus modulus of elasticity moment of inertia mortar partitions piers piles planks plaster plates Pocket Companion Portland cement Portland-cement POST-CAP pounds per square radii radius radius of gyration ratios reinforced-concrete resistance rivets rods roof safe load sand section-modulus shear shown in Fig side slab spaced span sq ft square foot square inch steel beams stone strength surface Table terra-cotta tests thickness tiles timber tons uniformly distributed unit load unit stress values vertical voussoir wall weight width wire
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Page 64 - To three times the square of the radius of its base add the square of its height; multiply this sum by the height and the product by 0.5236.
Page 242 - PROPORTIONS. The materials to be used in concrete should be carefully selected, of uniform quality, and proportioned with a view to securing as nearly as possible a maximum density. (a) Unit of Measure. — The unit of measure should be the barrel, which should be taken as containing 3.8 cubic feet.
Page 64 - ... former, and the remainder will be the volume of the frustum. To compute the volume of a sphere. Rule. Multiply the cube of the diameter by 0.5236.
Page 490 - For the roof and top floor the full live loads shall be used; for each succeeding lower floor it shall be permissible to reduce the live load by five per cent, until fifty per cent, of the live loads fixed by this section is reached, when such reduced loads shall be used for all remaining floors.
Page 243 - The materials should be mixed wet enough to produce a concrete of such a consistency as will flow into the forms and about the metal reinforcement, and which, at the same time, can be conveyed from the mixer to the forms without separation of the coarse aggregate from the mortar.
Page 31 - AEB is a curved line. 5. A surface is that which has length and breadth, without thickness. 6. A plane is a surface, in which any two points being taken, the straight line joining those points lies wholly in that surface. 7. Every surface, which is neither a plane nor composed of planes, is a curved surface.
Page 384 - Tension and bend test specimens for plates over 1J in. in thickness may be machined to a thickness or diameter of at least J in.
Page 37 - To find the circumference of a circle, multiply the diameter by 3.1416. To find the diameter of a circle, multiply the circumference by .31831.
Page 247 - Barrels of Portland Cement Per Cubic Yard of Mortar (Voids in Sand Being 35 per cent and 1 Bbl. Cement Yielding 3.65 Cubic Feet of Cement Paste.) TABLE...
Page 498 - W (11) (12) (13) (14) in which u = ultimate strength of column, in pounds per square inch; / = length of column, in inches; r = least radius of gyration, in inches.