A Revolution In The Technique Of The Utilisation Of Concrete

摘要

The methods which the author proposes to lay before you are the result of research work ceaselessly carried out from the very beginning of his career as an Engineer. Before 1928 he devoted to them his too scanty leisure hours only, but since then, abandoning all other fields of activity, he concentrated upon their development all the intellectual and material means which he could command.rnHe considers himself entitled to state to-day that he succeeded in creating a theory and the means of giving it practical application, which class the combination of steel and concrete when treated in accordance with these new methods, as an entirely new material possessing properties very different from those of ordinary reinforced concrete; thereby the field of technical possibilities is considerably increased and the cost of structures radically altered.