Reinforced Concrete Designers Handbook

Edité par Concrete Publications Limited, 1957

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Reinforced Concrete Designer?s Handbook (1957) by Chas. E. Reynolds Concrete Publications Limited | ISBN: none | Condition: Good Sold by Crappy Old Books Behold the book that taught a generation of engineers how to make stone behave like steel and steel pretend to be modest. Chas. E. Reynolds?s Reinforced Concrete Designer?s Handbook (1957) is mid-century confidence in hardback: brisk tables, no-nonsense diagrams, and the calm assurance that any beam can be brought to heel with a slide rule, a few stirrups, and a strong cup of tea. Inside, the glamorous world of 1950s concrete reveals itself in glorious grey: neutral axes located with the poise of a ballet dancer, shear links stepping in like polite bodyguards, cover depths measured with the seriousness of a coronation. This is the age of permissible stress and tidy detailing?pre-BS 8110, pre-Eurocodes, and proudly certain that moments can be tamed with a neat line and a sharper pencil. And then, the treasures . Tucked within are two large, venerable sheets of folded paper?proper engineer?s contraband?covered in hand-worked sums, spans, and little sketches that look suspiciously like the bones of a bridge or the secrets of a staircase. They crackle like archaeological finds and smell faintly of drawing office and destiny. On the front page there?s an extra slip , cellotaped in about fifty years ago, bearing printed notations, equations, and the unmistakable importance of an authore who wrestled with real loads on real Mondays. The tape has ambered into that beautiful ?museum of stationery? shade; the note itself is a tiny window into a world where structures were argued into existence with graphite and faith. Condition: Good ? meaning the spine is steady, the pages are all present, and the edges carry an honourable patina of studio life. Expect dignified scuffing, perhaps a ghostly coffee ring from the night the column schedule finally balanced, and marginal ticks that feel like nods from a kindly clerk of works. Perfect for structural nostalgists, concrete romantics, and anyone who keeps a slide rule on the desk for moral support. Display it to terrify guests into discussing cover to reinforcement, or keep it within reach for the pure tactile joy of thumbing a table of allowable stresses like a rosary. Lovingly rehomed by Crappy Old Books , where ephemera is evidence, tape is provenance, and every pencilled shear diagram is a love letter to things that refuse to fall down.…

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Titre
Reinforced Concrete Designers Handbook
Auteur
Chas E Reynolds
Éditeur
Concrete Publications Limited
Année de publication
1957
État de l'article
Good
Reliure
Hardback

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