Reinforced Concrete Field Handbook Classic Reprint

Author : Truscon Steel Company
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ISBN 13 : 9781330601549
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Kahn System Standards written by Truscon Steel Company and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Kahn System Standards: A Handbook on Reinforced Concrete When, in the late 60s, Monier, a French gardener, began making flower pots, boxes and small water tanks out of concrete and imbedded wire in the material to increase its strength and decrease its weight and bulk, he little thought that forty years later the principle he employed would be used throughout the entire world in the erection of millions upon millions of dollar's worth of construction work. There has been no class of structures, no line of the building trades which has not been affected by reinforced concrete, and many ot them have been revolutionized. The story of the development and growth of the use of this form of construction has filled volumes, while here it can only be touched upon briefly. Concrete Defined Concrete is a rock-like substance formed by the mixture of cement, sand, stone and water. It is the result of the cementing together, through chemical action between the cement and water, of various sizes of stone so proportioned with the other material that all voids within the resulting mass are filled. Reinforced Concrete Defined Reinforced concrete is exactly what the name implies. It is concrete in which steel has been imbedded to give additional strength and elasticity. Plain concrete, when used in the form of pillars and posts, is capable of carrying heavy direct loads through its great compressive strength. But when it is subjected to a direct pull, that is, to tensile strains, it is weak. For example, if a plain concrete beam is subjected to a load it will break apart at the bottom just as a piece of chalk would under like conditions, being unable to resist the tension in the lower portion of the beam. In order to overcome this, reinforcing steel is used to give proper tensile strength and elasticity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.