Skeleton Construction in Buildings

This volume describes and illustrates the methods of skeleton-constructed buildings; Tables of tests of various-shaped columns are given, and in a few chapters especial stress has been laid upon the advantages and disadvantages of different shapes of iron and steel in columns for making rigid connections with the floor beams, curtain-wall girders and with each other - a necessary requirement, indispensable to good construction. Other chapters are devoted to the details and calculations attending the erection of high buildings using the skeleton construction, - the system of wind-bracing, curtain-wall supports, and foundations.