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INDEX 



Medium steel, 252. 

 Membrane method of water- 

 proofing, 345. 

 Mensuration, 49. 

 Merchandise in bulk, Table 



of weight of, 64. 

 Merrick system of reinforce- 

 ment, 274. 



Metal, Expanded, 263. 

 Herring-bone expanded, 



266. 



Kahn expanded, 265. 

 reinforcement, Sheet-, 267. 

 Table of properties of 



expanded, 264. 

 Table of properties of 



Kahn expanded, 265. 

 Metallic reinforcement, 

 Characteristics of, 252. 

 Metals, Table of ultimate 



strength of, 126. 

 Tables of weights of vari- 



9us, 67. 



Metric capacity, 5. 

 conversion tables, 6. 

 lengths, 5. 

 surface, 5. 

 system, 4. 

 volume, 5. 

 weight, 6. 



Mild, or soft, steel, 252. 

 Miscellaneous materials, 

 Table of weights of, 68. 

 reinforcement, 280. 

 Mixed cement, 195. 

 Mixer, Carlin cube, 347. 

 Cube, 347. 

 Cockburn, 352. 

 Concrete, 347. 

 Continuous, 351. 

 Drake, 351. 

 Operation of concrete, 



354. 



Quantitative, 353. 

 Ransome, 348. 

 Smith, 349. 

 Starting and operating a, 



356. 



Mixing and working of con- 

 crete, 242. 



concrete for waterproof- 

 ing, 342. 



Mixing of concrete, 246. 

 Mixtures, Sand and its, 197. 

 Moduli of rupture of con- 

 crete, Table of, 284. 

 Modulus of rupture, 124, 



169. 



Section, 145. 

 Molds for mortar, 218. 

 Moment, Diagram for bend- 

 ing, 114. 



for continuous beams over 

 equal spans, Bending, 

 120. 



formulas, Bending, 167. 

 Measurements of, 93. 

 of beams, Formulas for 

 maximum shear and 

 bending, 116. 

 of forces, 93. 

 of inertia, 129. 

 Resultant, 95. 

 Moments, Bending, 110. 

 Locating neutral axis by 

 means of the principle 

 of, 97. 



Negative and positive, 94. 

 Monolith steel bar, 262. 

 Mortar briquets, Method of 



making, 218. 

 briquets, Storage of, 218. 

 Cement, 201. 

 Coloring of, 208. 

 Consistency of, 216. 

 in freezing weather, Lay- 

 ing, 206. 

 Lime, 200. 



Lime and cement, 199. 

 Materials required per 



cubic yard of, 203. 

 Molds for, 218. 

 Retempering of, 206. 

 Shrinking in, 207. 

 Table of tensile strength 



of cement, 204. 

 test, Sand for, 217. 

 Mushroom system of rein- 

 forcement, 275. 



H 



Natural and slag cement, 

 Tests of, 227. 



