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Concrete walls as counterweights
Structural features of two San Francisco exposition buildings, designed for later use as hangars; arch dead loads are counterbalanced by hanging walls from steelwork; 3-hinged arches carry each concrete side wall as cantilevered load hung in vertical plane outside arch pipe lines; pylons at either end of side walls also suspended from structural frame; wall construction.
Concrete walls as counterweights
Structural features of two San Francisco exposition buildings, designed for later use as hangars; arch dead loads are counterbalanced by hanging walls from steelwork; 3-hinged arches carry each concrete side wall as cantilevered load hung in vertical plane outside arch pipe lines; pylons at either end of side walls also suspended from structural frame; wall construction.
Concrete walls as counterweights
Eng News-Rec
Engineering News-Record ; 119
1937
3 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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