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Method has cut steel requirements and provided column-free playing area of 112×81 ft in gymnasium of Murfreesboro, NC, high school; steel roof framing comprises A-frame bents, which establish 4 on 12 roof-pitch, and two parabolic arches in plane of roof; longitudinal and transverse ties at wall and angle bracing complete framing; A-frames are supported on unbraced masonry walls.
Method has cut steel requirements and provided column-free playing area of 112×81 ft in gymnasium of Murfreesboro, NC, high school; steel roof framing comprises A-frame bents, which establish 4 on 12 roof-pitch, and two parabolic arches in plane of roof; longitudinal and transverse ties at wall and angle bracing complete framing; A-frames are supported on unbraced masonry walls.
Hidden-arch roof eliminates columns
Eng News-Rec
Hanks, E.E. (author)
Engineering News-Record ; 162
1959
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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