Static structures (e.g. – buildings) – With component having discrete prestressing means – Beam – girder – or truss construction
Patent
1976-12-10
1979-03-20
Murtagh, John E.
Static structures (e.g., buildings)
With component having discrete prestressing means
Beam, girder, or truss construction
52 82, 522361, 52744, 52745, E04B 1342, E04C 326
Patent
active
041446852
ABSTRACT:
A one-story building having a polygonal floor with a centrally located mast, has exterior walls tilted up from horizontal by means of tackle mounted to the mast. The walls are of a cast cementitious material with embedded rectangular grid of bamboo tubes. Continuous strings of barbed wire extend lengthwise inside the horizontal tubes of the grid around the entire perimeter of the building from one jamb to the other of a doorway in one of the exterior walls to bind walls together. Selected ones of the horizontal and vertical tubes used for electrical and plumbing conduits. Tubes are filled with concrete after erection of the walls. The mast and tackle thereon are used to erect a multipanel roof to position where it is supported on the mast and walls.
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