Excerpt from Reinforced Concrete in Europe, Including Its Applications, Economics, and Endurance: The Systems, the Forms of Bars and the Metal Used in England and on the Continent
A private edition of fifty copies of this Report was printed last May for distribution to the Subscribers.
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The Report is a compilation of information, on current practice in Reinforced Concrete Construction in Great Britain and on the Continent, collected during 1908, chiefly by personal interviews, with the leading authorities in each Country.
The theoretical branches of the subject, including the rules for calculation, are but briefly referred to, because elaborate Treatises in English, French and German, recently published, deal with the latest practice of each country in these matters.
The practical branches of the subject, on which the Subscribers desired information, are fully treated, including the economy and proof of the endurance of foreign Reinforced Concrete Construction, the Systems used Abroad, the specifications for the cement used, the ingredients and the mixing of the concrete, and the rules governing construction; much space is devoted to the kind of steel and the forms of bars at present in vogue Abroad, as the writer was requested to give particular attention to these two subjects.
The addresses of prominent consulting and contracting engineers of each country, are given, to enable the reader to obtain further information, if desired.
In Appendix No. 3, the addresses arc given of the official and technical testing Stations, Congresses, Institutions, Associations and Committees of each Country, which are giving particular attention to this subject and from whom additional information can be obtained.
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