Cassells Reinforced Concrete a Complete Treatise On the Practice And Theory of
Cassells Reinforced Concrete a Complete Treatise On the Practice And Theory of
Bernard Edward Jones
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, and the load to be carried 40 tons ; the reinforced concrete column worked out to 10 in. Square, and the steel stanchion, allow- ing 2 in. All round as before, to 12 in. By 10 in. It must not be forgotten that reinforced concrete is introducing no such revolutionary or very great change in architectural ex- pression as that which occurred when the arch superseded the lintel. It is interesting to find Prof. Beresford Pite, in the course of his Carpenters' Hall lecture on " What is Artistic Cra...ftsmanship ? " say- ing : " If the Greeks had had the use of steel girders or ferro-concrete material they would have been delighted to find that they could span the whole of a big front with 'a beam such as has been em- ployed in the new Post Office building in Newgate Street. " It seems practically certain that the Greeks had a know- ledge of the arch, and that they preferred and deliber- ately selected the lintel for covering their openings, in spite of the former rendering larger openings possible but it does not follow that they would not have welcomed a stronger beam, although their desire to span larger openings was not emphatic enough to force them to adopt the Fig.
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