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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
SP52-13
C.A.P. Turner
In taking up the various systems of concrete steel construction the name Francois Monier, a French gardener, stands pre-eminent as the pioneer in this field, while to Hennibique in France and Ransome in the United States due credit should be given as leaders among the early pioneers in this line of work. To Armand Considere belongs the credit of the invention of the safest and most conservative type of column design, that is the hooped and vertically reinforced column.
10.14359/17632
SP52-14
A biography of Ernest Leslie Ransome. Ernest Leslie Ransome was born in England in 1844. His great-grandfather had established an iron foundry near Ipswich, which had remained the family business. Ernest's interest in concrete construction developed naturally since his father, Frederick Ransome, had broadened the scope of the foundry and was an early pioneer in the British concrete industry.
10.14359/17633
SP52-15
Ernest L. Ransome and Alexis Saurbrey
When, in 1850, I entered as an apprentice in my father's factory in Ipswich, England, the concrete industry was in its infancy, and was confined largely to the manufacture of artificial stone for ornamental purpose.
10.14359/17634
SP52-16
A biography of Duff Andrew Abrams. Duff Andrew Abrams was born in Illinois in 1880. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1905. A contemporary description of Abrams, prepared by A.R. Lord when Abrams become president of The American Concrete Institute in 1931 and describing an association that began at the University of Illinois, provides an interesting insight into Abhrams and his work. . .
10.14359/17635
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