INDEX 



297 



Columns and poets, Distinction be- 

 tween, 241 



Columns and structures, 241 

 Columns, Area of floor served by 



interior, 262 



Columns, Caps for wooden, 269 

 Columns, Eccentric loads on, 253 

 Columns, Euler's formula, 243 

 Columns, Foundations under, 276 

 Columns, Gordon's formula, 243 

 Columns in buildings, Loads on, 261 

 Columns, Methods of fixing, 252 

 Columns, Rankine's formula, 243 

 Columns, Wrought iron, 251 

 Compound beams, 110 

 Compression pieces, Built-up, 163 

 Computation, Aids to, 81 

 Computing reactions, 18 

 Concentrated loads, 232 

 Concentrated loads on beams on 



two supports, 20 



Concrete beam, Moment of resist- 

 ance, 74 



Connections and joists, 136 

 ( ''instruction of parabola, 28 

 Continuous beams, 237 

 Continuous beams, Maximum mo- 

 ment for, 50 

 Contraflexure point in columns and 



girders, 258 



Contrafloxuro, Point of, 41, 46 

 Counterforts in retaining walls, 291 

 Couple, definition, 63 

 Cover plates and stiffeners for plate 



ninlrrs, 113 



Cover plates, definition, 114 

 Cover plates, Proportioning, 117 

 Cracks in timber framework, 144 

 < 'nine loads on girders, 36 

 , Crescent truss, 223 



Curves for designing bins and tanks, 

 283 



Dead load, definition, 10 

 Dead weight of buildings, 261 



k truss, Pratt, - 

 Deck truss, Warren, 220 



Deflection formulas, 80 



Deflection in beams and girders, 79, 



98 



Deformation, Ratio of, 71 

 Design of beams, Problems in, 85 

 Design of chimneys, 279 

 Design of floors, 88 

 Design of riveted joints, 192 

 Design of rods, 146 

 Design of tank towers, 277 

 Designers and salesmen, 54 

 Designing footings, 266 

 Designs for joints and fastenings, 143 

 Details for wood truss, 142 

 Dewell, H. D., Experiments of , 138 

 Diagonal bracing in tall buildings, 257 

 Distributed equivalent loads, 43 

 Distributed loads on footings, 262 

 Distribution of pressure on bearing 



faces, 170 



Dividing line into equal parts, 27 

 Double shear rivets, 191 

 Double strut belly-rod beam, 120 

 Drawing, Accuracy in, 237 

 Duchemin's formula for wind pres- 

 sure, 227 



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Eccentric loading, Flexure stress due 



to, 254 



Eccentric loads on column base, 273 

 Eccentric loads on columns, 253 

 Eccentric loads on footings, 271 

 Elastic limit, definition, 69 

 Employment of engineers, 55 

 End joint, Design of, 173 

 End stiff enors, 113 

 Engineers, Employment of, 55 

 Equivalent distributed loads, 43 

 Kuler's straight-line formula, 246 



Fabrication standards for steel, 195 

 Factor of safety, definition, 112 

 Fan trusses, 134 



Faulty design, Effect of, on framed 

 structures, 196 



