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Title: The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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with the -lope of theToward the ends of the wings, where the natural ground slope flattens andfalls away from the seats, the columns become longer, and in thirooms are the full height of the -land- from playground grade ■toms of the inclined beams. Looking at the details of the design, the seats a 4-inch con- crete slabs reinforced with 10-gauge Clinton wire cloth, the sheets of whichare laid continuously down the tier of seats, running down the riser rein- 74 The Architect and Engineer
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The Architect and En forcement from one seat slab to thi are 7>l/2 inches thick, forming beams .V.. inches by 18 inches, with spans of 20 feet and less,depending on location. Their reinforcement is in the form of latticedframes of small angles. The upper and lower longitudinal anglinches by 2l/2 inches by 5-16 inch spaced 14 inches apart and laced togetherwith triangular lacing of 1: i inch by 1 j inch i.\ 3 1 .inch angles, formingvirtually small Warren trus i Ovei the principal supporting beams,adjoining frames or trusses are fastened together with small fish piand bolts, so as to make the reinforcement of each riser continuousthe beams and around the entire stadium. The principal beams are 10 inches wide and 34 inches deep. Along thetop they have a stepped face to accommodate the - h beam is reinforced in the spans between columns with nch round rods, three of which are continuous in the bottom of the beam throughout thespan, and the other two bent upward mar the column supports

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