Identifier: handbookforarchi14illi (find matches)
Title: Handbook for architects and builders
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Illinois Society of Architects
Subjects: Architecture Building Architects
Publisher: Chicago

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re-sponsible for defects due to irregular crosssections and unevenly distributed metal. Inspection 9. The inspector representing tlie pur-chaser shall have all reasonable facilitiesgiven him by tlie founder to satisfy liimthat the finished material is furnished in ac-cordance with these specifications. All tessand inspectioiis shall be made prior to ship-inent. 195 ESTABLISHED 1863 HOLMUS, PYOTT 6 CO. Structural SteelArchitectural Iron Work Phone Franklin 1386-1387 159 North Jefferson Street, CHICAGO SODIH HHLSTED STREET IBOH WORKS Architectural Iron and Steel Construction BEAMS, CHANNELS, ANGLES and UNIVERSALPLATES in STOCK DOWN TOWN OFFICE629, First National Bank Bldg. Office Phone Central 1150 CHICAGO WORKS 2607-3631 So. Halsted Street Private Exchange, All DepartmentsYards 1150 Telephone Monroe 2327 Central Iron Works of Chicago MANUFACTURERS OF FIRE ESCAPES AND STAND PIPESFIRE-PROOF DOORS AND SHUTTERSGENERAL IRON WORK FOR BLDGS. 1?EW NUMBER 939-941 West Lake Street CHICAGO, ILLS.
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South ChicagoArchitectural Jron \Yorks 95th Street and Escanaba Avenue MANUFACTURERS OF Ornamental and Structural Iron Work Telephone So. Chicago 1151 ■Write for our Circular, giving descriptive matter on all Steel Stair-way that we manufacture suitable for buildings of every class. 196 STRENGTH OF MATERIALS. STRESSES. A stress is a force which acts ia the in-terior of a body and resists the externalforces which tend to change its shape. Threekinds of simple stress are produced by forceswhich tend to change the shape of a body. They are: Tensile, tending to pull apart,as in a rope; compressive, tending to pushtogether, as in a column: shearing, tendingto cut across, as in punciiing a plate. The ultixaate strength of a material undertension, compression, or shear, is the greatestunit-stress to which it can be subjected.This occurs at or shortly before rupture, andits value is very different for different mate-rials; thus if a bar whose cross-section is Abreaks under a tensile stress,

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