Masonry Magazine July 1967 Page. 27
People & Events
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'67 edition of the Texas Buyers Guide has gone to press and Jerry Jarboe reports that this years' is bigger and better.
Charles Guenther, who has been a territory representative in Southern Illinois for Zonolite Div., W. R. Grace & Co., has been promoted to the position of architectural representative in the firm's St. Louis-Kansas district. The appointment of Miss Mary Margaret Grant as Assistant Director of Information Service for the American Institute of Architects has been announced by William H. Scheick, FAIA, executive director of the Institute.
MCAA Regional Vice President, Eugene George, President of George & Asmussen Ltd., Canada's largest masonry contractor was featured in the May issue of the National Concrete Producers News. The Concrete Masonry Association of Illinois held their mid-year meeting on Friday, June 23rd, Streator, III. Chemical Supply Co., Memphis, Tenn. has been named representatives for the Landers-Segal Color Company.
Book Mart
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can be fabricated economically and also help the fabricator to understand the factors which require his special attention.
Among the topics covered in the fifteen chapters are: Properties peculiar to prestressed concrete; design procedure; design of a prestressed concrete bridge; pretensioned method; post-tensioned method; design of a post-tensioned girder; compression members; and typical structures and their components. The appendixes contain excerpts from ACI Standard Building Code requirements, excerpts from "Suggested Design of Joints and Connections in Prestressed Structural Concrete," derivation of simplified formulas for shear design used in design examples, a chart for determining maximum moments from AASHO loadings at points other than mid-span, and derivation of proof that the ratio of M/V is the same for design and ultimate loads.
Further information on Modern Prestressed Concrete may be obtained from the McGraw-Hill Book Information Service, 327 West 41st Street, New York, New York 10036.
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