Pocket Companion Containing Useful Information and Tables Appertaining to the Use of Steel

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The Company, 1893 - Steel - 303 pages
 

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Page 37 - The tensile strength, limit of elasticity, and ductility shall be determined from a standard test piece cut from the finished material. The standard shape of the...
Page 17 - Figs. 230 and 231, the former being constructed to receive sidings of corrugated, iron, while in the latter figure the side walls of the building are brick. Special care must be taken that the projecting edges of the corrugated iron at the eaves and gable ends of the roof are well secured, otherwise the wind will loosen the sheets and fold them up. The corrugations are made of various sizes such as 5-inch, 2|-inch, IJ-inch and f-inch, the measurements always being from A to B in Fig.
Page 70 - To find the deflection of any symmetrical shape used as a beam under its corresponding safe load, divide the coefficients given in the above tables by the depth of the beam. This applies to such shapes as I-beams, channels, Z-bars, etc. For those beams having unsymmetrical axes, such as tees, angles, etc. , divide by twice the greatest distance of the neutral axis from the outside fiber. EXAMPLE: Required the deflection of a 12
Page 37 - Every finished piece of steel shall be stamped with the blow or melt number, and steel for pins shall have the blow or melt number stamped on the ends. Rivet and lacing steel, and small pieces for pin plates and stiffeners, may be shipped in bundles securely wired together, with the blow or melt number on a metal tag attached.
Page 39 - Rivet holes must be accurately spaced ; the use of drift pins will be allowed only for bringing together the several parts forming a member, and they must not be driven with such force as to disturb the metal about the holes.

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