Concrete Engineers' Handbook: Data for the Design and Construction of Plain and Reinforced Concrete Structures

George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson

McGraw-Hill, 1918 - Cement - 885 pages

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Contents

• Materials: 1
• Manufacture of Portland cement 6 b Traprock of diabase: 14
• Containers for cement 11 33 Specific gravity of aggregates: 25
• Tests of aggregates 27 bars: 35
• Influence of quantity of water on a Welded wire fabric: 41
• Excess water the cause of large lait a Hyrib: 47
• Types of reinforcement 36 f Pinconnected system: 53
• General Methods of Construction: 63
• Checking materials on the: 69
• Bonding set and new concrete: 75
• Meaning of waterproof: 82
• Waterproofing by cement grouting: 88
• 82: 141
• Economical considerations 94 79 Operation of machines: 150
• Preparation of crushedstone aggre: 171
• cement sacks: 178
• Low charging mixers: 191
• 25: 203
• a Retopping: 210
• ART PAGE ART PAGE c Use of oils 210 11 Concrete curbing: 212
• Structural functions 210 13 Structural functions: 213
• f Protecting sidewalks in hot weather 212 c Joints: 214
• Properties of Cement Mortar and Plain Concrete: 215
• STRENGTH of CEMENT MoRTAR AND PLAIN 23 Transverse strength: 242
• Shearing strength: 243
• Strength in general 215 A 25 Adhesive strength: 246
• Neat mortar and concrete strength b Adhesion or bond to steel see Art 2 Sect 6: 247
• 27 strength of cinder concrete: 248
• Effect of shapes and size of aggre 28 Working stresses see Appendir B: 250
• Effect of consistency 225 30 Yield point: 251
• compared Contraction and ExPANsion of CEMENT 11 Strength of plain concrete columns 229 MoRTAR AND CoNCRETE 12 Effect ...: 252
• Effect of regaging 232 33 Moisture changes: 253
• Effect of curing conditions 234: 254
• proofing compounds 238 35 Weathering qualities: 255
• Effect of sea water used in gaging 238 36 Abrasive resistance 25 5: 257
• 40 Electrolysis in concrete: 258
• MiscellANEOUs Properties of CEMENT: 262
• Advantages of combining concrete Influence of freezing of concrete: 268
• Forces to be resisted 273 17 Web reinforcement in general: 280
• Plain concrete beams 275 moment diagram: 296
• Flexure formulas for ultimate loads 279 26 Economical proportions of rectangu: 302
• sides: 307
• Tbeams with steel in top and bottom: 313
• 54: 339
• Lefflers comprehensive beam chart: 348
• Columns: 371
• Reduction formula for long columns: 381
• Case III Tension over part: 394
• Graphical determination of stresses: 406
• Section 11: 431
• Bedding machinery: 437
• Hollow tile construction: 447
• FLAt SLAB CoNstruction: 457
• Patents: 479
• Methods of design and problems: 487
• ART PAGE f Roof design: 496
• g Beams in flatslab floors: 497
• Brick exterior wall supports: 498
• Construction methods and safeguards: 506
• UNIT CoNSTRUCTION Method of construction in general: 508
• Ransome unit system: 509
• STEEL FRAME CONSTRUCTION witH Con: 511
• CRETE SLABs ART PAGE 38 Trainshed of Unitbill construction: 527
• Loading: 530
• WALLS AND PARtitions 42 Bearing walls: 532
• Curtain walls: 533
• Brick and other veneer: 539
• Window openings: 540
• Door openings: 543
• Basement walls: 545
• General design: 549
• Methods of supporting stairs: 550
• Stair details: 551
• ELEvator SHAFTs 52 Elevatorshaft pits: 552
• Pent houses: 553
• Methods employed: 554
• Combined column footings: 557
• Pressure on the soil 55S 3 Plain concrete footings: 558
• Wall footings: 559
• Earth pressure: 575
• a Rankines formula for resultant active earth pressure: 576
• b Coulombs wedge of maximum Dressure 57 7: 577
• Comparison of Coulomb and Ran kine results 5S0 d Useful interpretation of results of earth pressure theories: 580
• Live load on top of fillPressure dis tribution: 581
• ART PAGE A Rt PAGE: 592
• Slab and Girder Bridges: 603
• SLAB BRIDGEs 8 Analysis of stresses in rigid viaduct: 625
• Slab bridges of single span 605 rigidly connected column tie: 631
• Through girders 617 k Effect of fixed bases: 638
• Concrete floors on steel bridges 643 7 Cellular abutments: 647
• ART PAGE: 651
• Approximate formula for best shape: 658
• Loadings to use in computations: 664
• Variation in thickness of arch ribs: 670
• Diagrams for moments thrusts: 681
• DETAILs of ARCH BRIDGEs: 691
• Piers and abutments: 702
• General discussion: 715
• ART PAGE: 723
• Design of dams of gravity section: 729
• Design of arched dams: 736
• Earthern dams with concrete core: 745
• S Movable dams: 758
• Partition and outside walls: 764
• Supporting tower: 774
• b Strength of pipe: 781
• Art PAGE ART Page: 797
• Arch culverts 796 39 Examples of reinforcedconcrete pipe: 803
• Action of grain in deep bins 805 repose Case III: 811
• Sloped sideslevel full Case I 811 19 Temperature stresses in chimneys: 819
• Estimating UNIT Costs d Summary: 828
• Rtlings PERTAINING TO Flatslab DEsign Appendix D: 861
• ēr: 867

Bibliographic information

• Title: Concrete Engineers' Handbook: Data for the Design and Construction of Plain and Reinforced Concrete Structures
• Authors: George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1918
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Oct 10, 2007
• Length: 885 pages