The Building Trades Pocketbook: A Handy Manual, of Reference on Building Construction, Including Structural Design, Masonry, Bricklaying, Carpentry, ... Heating, and Ventilation (Classic Reprint)

This Pocketbook is intended for the use of all persons connected with The Building Trades, and contains many features not found in similar publications. In addition to tables giving the properties of materials used in construction, practical rules for laying out work, and data valuable for reference, it presents approved methods for solving the problems involving strength and stability, which occur in building practice. The processes of calculation are clear and intelligible, and those who are acquainted with simple arithmetic will have no diflficulty in following them. A mong the subjects considered are the loads on structures ;the strength of materials ;the bearing capacity of soils; the width and thickness of footing courses; the dimensions of piers and their foundations; the thickness of walls for different classes of buildings; and the various kinds of stone and brick masonry.
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