INDEX 



Lime, Rich, 193. 



Slaked, 193. 

 Linear measure, 1. 

 Lintel and spandrel construc- 

 tion, 322. 



Liquid measure, 3. 

 Live load, 56, 61. 



loads on floors in different 



cities, Table of, 63. 

 Load, Accidental, 56. 

 Concentrated, 100. 

 Dead, 56. 

 Distributed, 100. 

 Floor and test, 368. 

 from floor to floor, Re- 

 duction of live, 86. 

 Live, 56, 61. 

 on cast-iron columns, 



Safe, 188. 



on floors in different cities, 

 Table of allowable live, 

 63. 



Snow, 56. 



Suddenly applied, 176. 

 Table of wind, 82. 

 Uniform, 100. 

 Wind, 56. 



Wind and snow, 81. 

 Loading testing machine, 



Rate of, 220. 



Loads, Disposition of, 85. 

 in structures, 56. 

 on beam, 100. 



Locating neutral axis by 

 means of the principle 

 of moments, 97. 

 Lock-woven wire fabric, 



267. 



Long posts, 181. 

 -ton weight, 3. 

 Longitudinal column rods, 



250. 

 Loop truss, Cummings, 



278. 



Loose - rod system of rein- 

 forcement, 269. 

 Low temperature, Laying 



mortar at, 206. 

 Lug bar, Square-twisted, 



257. 



bar, Table of properties of 

 twisted, 258. 



M 



Machine, Rate of loading 



testing, 220. 

 Testing, 219. 



Main reinforcing rods, 250. 

 Masonry, Crushing strengch 



of brick, 288. 

 Crushing strength of 



stone, 287. 



Material, Cementing, 192. 

 required per cubic yard of 



mortar, 203. 



Strength of building, 124. 

 Table of weight of build- 

 ing, 59. 



Table of weights of mis- 

 cellaneous, 68. 

 used for concrete, 230. 

 Usual proportions of, 



235. 



Mathematical tables, 10. 

 Mathematics, 16. 

 Matrix, Definition of, 230. 

 Maximum shears and bend- 

 ing moments of beams. 

 Formulas for, 116. 

 McCarty separator, 340. 

 Meager lime, 193. 

 Measure, Cubic, 2. 

 Dry, 3. 

 Linear, 1. 

 Liquid, 3. 



of angles or arcs, 2. 

 of capacity, 5. 

 of length, 5. 

 of surface, 5. 

 of volume, 5. 

 of weight, 6. 

 Square, 2. 

 Surveyor's, 1. 

 Surveyor's square, 2. 

 Measurement of expansion, 



211. 



of moments, 93. 

 Measurer and feeder, Gil- 



braith, 353. 



Measures, Weights and, 1. 

 Measuring ingredients, 



Method of, 242. 

 Mechanics, 87. 

 Medium concrete, 285. 



