The Architect's and Builder's Pocket-Book 12th Edition

The Architect's and Builder's Pocket-Book 12th Edition

IN preparing the following pages, it has ever been the aim of the author to give to the architects a and builders of this country a reference book which should be for them what Trautwine's "Pocket-Book" is to engineers, - a compendium of practical facts, rules, and tables, presented in a form as convenient for application 88 possible, and as reliable 88 our present knowledge will permit.

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Table of Contents:

COVER

PREFACE

CONTENTS

PART I - PRACTICAL ARITHMETIC, GEOMETRY, AND TRIGONOMETRY

PART II - TRENGHT OF MATERIALS AND STABILITY OF STRUCTURES

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I - DEFINITIONS OF TERMS USED IN MECHANICS

CHAPTER II - FOUNDATIONS

CHAPTER III - MASONRY WALLS

CHAPTER IV - COMPOSIYION AND RESOLUTION OF FORCES. CENTRE OF GRAVITY

CHAPTER V - RETAINING WALLS

CHAPTER VI - STRENGHT OF MASONRY

CHAPTER VII - STABILITY OF PIERS AND BUTTRESSES

CHAPTER VIII - THE STABILITY OF ARCHES

CHAPTER IX - RESISTANCE TO TENSION

CHAPTER X - RESISTANCE TO SHEARING

CHAPTER XI - STRENGHT OF POSTS, STRUTS AND COLUMNS

CHAPTER XII - BENDING MOMENTS

CHAPTER XIII - MOMENTS OF INERTIA AND RESISTANCE AND RADIUS OF GYRATION

CHAPTER XIV - GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF THE STRENGHT OF BEAMS AND STRENGHT OF IRON BEAMS

CHAPTER XV - STRENGHT OF CAST-IRON. WOODEN AND STONE BEAMS-SOLID BUILT BEAMS

CHAPTER XVI - STIFFNESS AND DEFLECTION OF BEAMS

CHAPTER XVII - STRENGHT AND STIFFNESS OF CONTINOUS GIRDERS

CHAPTER XVIII - FLITCH PLATE GIRDERS

CHAPTER XIX - TRUSSED BEAMS

CHAPTER XX - RIVETED PLATE-IRON GIRDERS

CHAPTER XXI - STRENGHT OF CAST-IRON ARCH-GIRDERS WITH WROUGHT-IRON TENSION-RODS

CHAPTER XXII - STRENGHT AND STIFFNESS OF WOODEN FLOORS

CHAPTER XXIII - FIRE-PROOF FLOORS

CHAPTER XXIV - MILL CONSTRUCTION

CHAPTER XXV - MATERIALS AND METHODS OF FIRE-PROOF CONSTRUCTION FOR BUILDINGS

CHAPTER XXVI - WOODEN ROOF-TRUSSES WITH DETAILS

CHAPTER XXVII - IRON ROOFS AND ROOF-TRUSSES WITH DETAILS OF CONSTRUCTION

CHAPTER XXVIII - THEORY OF ROOF-TRUSSES

CHAPTER XXIX - JOINTS

PART III - RULES, MEMORANDA AND TABLES USEFUL IN DESIGNING, ESTIMATING AND BUILDING

INDEX TO ADDITIONS

INDEX

GLOSSARY

ARHITECTURAL TERMS AS DEFINED IN VARIOUS BUILDING LAWS

CLASSIFIED LIST OD ADVERTISEMENTS