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Today’s engineers tend to think of prestressed structural members as a modern development resulting from cooperation between the high-carbon steel wire industry and the concrete industry. Everyone was surprised when eight post-tensioned cast iron girders dating from the 1850s were discovered inside an old bank building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during a renovation project. This archival paper describes analysis and tests of the antique wire cables.
Today’s engineers tend to think of prestressed structural members as a modern development resulting from cooperation between the high-carbon steel wire industry and the concrete industry. Everyone was surprised when eight post-tensioned cast iron girders dating from the 1850s were discovered inside an old bank building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during a renovation project. This archival paper describes analysis and tests of the antique wire cables.
| Author(s) | Donald Sayenga, Cardon Management Group, USA. |
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| Publication/Event/Pages | Paper presented at WAI 65th Annual Convention, Atlanta, GA USA. Paper published in Wire Journal International, April 1996, pg. 146. |
| Year | 1995 |
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