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The International Concrete Abstracts Portal is an ACI led collaboration with leading technical organizations from within the international concrete industry and offers the most comprehensive collection of published concrete abstracts.
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Document:
SP52
Date:
January 1, 1976
Author(s):
Editor: Howard Newlon, Jr.
Publication:
Symposium Papers
Volume:
52
Abstract:
SP52 If you want an understanding and awareness of the origins and progress of concrete technology, you will find it in this book. There are eight papers written by pioneer experimenters and constructors. These are accompanied by a history of the development of cement and concrete technology from ancient times into the twentieth century. You will learn of experiments a century ago with concrete reinforced by twisted iron bars. You will read of the design and construction of a reinforced concrete house that still stands a century after its erection. You will learn of early attempts to provide valid test results and dependable design data and procedures relating to reinforced concrete beams and flat slabs and the bonding of concrete to steel. You will read a history of innovations in the design and erectionof concrete buildings, along with a review of successful and unsuccessful examples of reinforced concrete construction. The reprint of Abrams’ 1918 paper on water-cement ratio is one of the classics in American concrete literature. This book will be interesting and entertaining to anyone who is interested in concrete. But it can be more than that. You may discover hat you achieve a better grasp of modern technology when you review the research and innovations of early experimenters. Thus the book offers practical value as well as historical interest.
DOI:
10.14359/14105
SP52-02
Howard Newlon, Jr.
Just as the roots of the United States political system and its people extend back in time and across the Atlantic Ocean, so do the beginnings of the United States contributions to the history of cement, concrete, and reinforced concrete.
10.14359/17621
SP52-03
A biography of Thaddeus Hyatt. Thaddeus Hyatt was born in New Jersey in 1816. The son of a schoolmaster, he was educated as a lawyer but did not practice, spending most of his life in New York City and London. Early in his career (about 1840-50) he invented and manufactured what he called an "illuminated sidewalk grating" made of iron, concrete, and glass. . .
10.14359/17622
SP52-04
Thaddeus Hyatt
The experiments made by the writer and which will be explained in the following pages, had for their object a possible means of obtaining cheaper and more reliable fireproof constructions than those in common use.
10.14359/17623
SP52-05
A biography of William Evans Ward. William Evans Ward was born in Indiana in 1821, but moved east with his family at an early age. In 1845 he went to Port Chester, N.Y., and started a business, devoting his attention first to the manufacture of wood screws and afterwards establishing a bolt and nut manufacturing plant, which continued in operation until the operation was transferred to Colorado in 1794. He was a pioneer in business and held many mechanical patents. By training and experience a mechanical engineer, Ward was a charter member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
10.14359/17624
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