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Notes Upon Testing Building Stones
Probably no one who has given the subject of testing building stones careful consideration is willing to admit that the methods now in vogue for determining the strength of structural material of this character are satisfactory or entirely reliable. This condition is probably due, as an eminent authority remarks, “to a lack of knowledge of the methods by which such tests can be made, and to a lack of appreciation of the necessity of such tests.” The old idea that one stone is as good as another as regards durability and strength cannot be too strongly condemned, since all stones or rocks are compound bodies, often exceedingly complex, composed of aggregations of various mineral substances whose individual nature and their respective influence upon one another should be understood as far as is possible, to arrive at a proper appreciation of the whole.
Notes Upon Testing Building Stones
Probably no one who has given the subject of testing building stones careful consideration is willing to admit that the methods now in vogue for determining the strength of structural material of this character are satisfactory or entirely reliable. This condition is probably due, as an eminent authority remarks, “to a lack of knowledge of the methods by which such tests can be made, and to a lack of appreciation of the necessity of such tests.” The old idea that one stone is as good as another as regards durability and strength cannot be too strongly condemned, since all stones or rocks are compound bodies, often exceedingly complex, composed of aggregations of various mineral substances whose individual nature and their respective influence upon one another should be understood as far as is possible, to arrive at a proper appreciation of the whole.
Notes Upon Testing Building Stones
Garrison, F. Lynwood (author)
2021-01-01
121894-01-01 pages
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| Engineering Index Backfile | 1890
| Engineering Index Backfile | 1890
Closure on Testing Building Stones
| ASCE | 2021
| Engineering Index Backfile | 1887
| Engineering Index Backfile | 1881