The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of April 18, 1906: And Their Effects on Structures and Structural MaterialsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1907 - 170 Seiten |
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April 18 Aronson Building badly cracked Baltimore fire basement brick walls brickwork buckled buildings in San built burned Call Building cast-iron columns caused chimneys cinder concrete city hall collapsed column coverings combustible concrete floor condition conflagration corner cotta destroyed destruction district dynamite earth earthquake and fire earthquake damage evidence expanded metal exterior failure fault line fault trace feet Ferry Building fireproof buildings floor arches floor construction front furred ceilings girders granite heat hollow tile Humphrey interior lath and plaster Leland Stanford marble Market street masonry material metal lath Mission street Photograph by Richard piers pipe portion post-office building probably protection reen reenforced concrete reenforced-concrete floor result Richard L roof San Andreas Lake sandstone shaken shown in Pl shutters spalled Spring Valley Spring Valley Water stairways steel frame steel-frame buildings Stephen Sewell stone structure suffered terra terra-cotta tion tower vaults vibration wire glass wire lath wooden wrecked
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Seite 140 - In fact, San Francisco has violated all underwriting traditions and precedents by not burning up; that it has not done so is largely due to the vigilance of the fire department, which cannot be relied upon indefinitely to stave off the inevitable.
Seite 64 - Summary.—While two of the five sections into which the congested-value district is divided involve only a mild conflagration hazard within their own limits, they are badly exposed by the others, in which all the elements of the conflagration hazard are present to a marked degree.
Seite 159 - Report of a general committee and of six special committees of the San Francisco association of members of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The effects of the San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906, on engineering constructions: Am.
Seite 161 - Comparison of the faults in the three earthquakes of Mino-Owari. Formosa, and San Francisco: Imperial Earthquake Investigation Committee, BulI., voI.
Seite 51 - ... elements of the conflagration hazard are present to a marked degree. Not only is the hazard extreme within the congested value district, but it is augmented by the presence of a compact surrounding great-height, largearea...
Seite xi - ... sent to San Francisco for this purpose, as secretary of the National Advisory Board on Fuels and Structural Materials and representing the structural materials division of the United States Geological Survey. At the request of the President, Capt. John Stephen Sewell, Corps of Engineers, United Scales Army, was sent to San Francisco on a similar errand by the War Department under order of April 23, 1906. Frank Soule, dean of the college of civil engineering of the University of California', was...
Seite 64 - The above features combined with the almost total lack of sprinklers and absence of modern protective devices generally, numerous and mutually aggravating conflagration breeders, high winds, and comparatively narrow streets, make the probability feature alarmingly severe.
Seite 50 - ... connected with the network wherever practicable. They advised that the system of distribution be equipped with a sufficient number of gate valves, so located that no single case of accident, breakage, or repair to the pipe system would necessitate the shutting from service of a length of main greater than the side of a single block (a maximum of 500 feet) in important mercantile manufacturing districts, or than two sides of a* single block (a maximum of 800 feet) in other districts. The building...
Seite 120 - A conflagration never yields reliable comparative results, but judging from such comparative results as are available, I think that there is no question that the best fire-resisting material available at the present time is the right kind of burned clay — that is, a good, tough, refractory clay, almost as refractory as fire clay, made into proper shapes and properly burned. Some commercial hollow-tile work is made of good material, but, as a rule, that is the only good thing that can be said about...