The San Francisco earthquake and fire; a brief history of the disaster; a presentation of facts and resulting phenomena, with special reference to the efficiency of building materials, lessons of the disaster . the heat from the fire of adjoining-buildings. Structural ties of this character are very generallyused and are frequently left exposed. The expansion of suchmembers no doubt causes abnormal stresses before the steel be-comes sufficiently heated to buckle or deflect. Such conse-quences should be avoided by suitable protection. Their ex-posure to the weatlier in positions where they are
The San Francisco earthquake and fire; a brief history of the disaster; a presentation of facts and resulting phenomena, with special reference to the efficiency of building materials, lessons of the disaster . the heat from the fire of adjoining-buildings. Structural ties of this character are very generallyused and are frequently left exposed. The expansion of suchmembers no doubt causes abnormal stresses before the steel be-comes sufficiently heated to buckle or deflect. Such conse-quences should be avoided by suitable protection. Their ex-posure to the weatlier in positions where they are usuallyinaccessible for jiainting, is also injurious, and consequentlyobjectionable. The partitions in this building- were carried through thewire lath ceilings to a wood plate that was attached to thefloor beams above. This is exceedingly bad practice, since theplate attached to the floor beams ignited in many places and 211 -o cs e o -. 2U caused more or less additional heat in the blind space betweenthe ceiling and the under side of the floor arches. The repairs to the exterior of this building will be compara-tively hglit. The rcplacino- of tlie buckled column should notbe a very serious matter. The rest of the repairs are limitedto the restoration of the interior finish. Stokace Wakehoise. West Mission St., East nf Tliirlwntli Slr<i-t. Hart, .Arrliitct. riEKliNS \AN ) SllliAlIE Ci TIlis building- was in the course of construction. The ex-terior walls are betiring \\alls and are of brick laid in limemortar. The interior columns, girders and beams are of rein-forced concrete. The floor slab is reinforced by l square,twisted Ransome rods at 12 centres. The walls of tliis build-ing had been carried up two stories, and the second tier of re-inforced concrete w;is being placed. The brick walls are considerably damaged by the eartlKjuake,beins badlv cracked at the corners and havintj- a lumiber ofsm
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