[TheForge] riveting, Greene and Greene

[Andrew Vida]

Steve howell wrote:

> On the structural engineering side, the 'modern' consensus is that hot 
> driven rivets don't develop tension because, I quote "...the rivet has 
> no way to develop tension..."  This is from a PhD at AISC, the institute 
> that basically governs steel construction in this country. I found 
> otherwise; two 3/8 X 2" bars riveted on one end with a 3/4" 1018 rivet 
> took 1500 foot lbs of force to get to 'slip'. No tension, my ass! 

	I am unclear how you are using "tension" in this context.  COuld you 
elaborate?  I'm a bit thick.
>  
> Bruce,
> I think Andy hit it on the head, it's not that there is little ironwork 
> in the Greene's work but that the design accents make one think in 
> different ways. There is (or was) a gate at the Gamble house which 
> mirrors the same lines in the architecture. I've only a picture of it in 
> one of my books.
> Another master of the arts and crafts ethic was Charles Rennie 
> Mackintosh who I have Jack Andrews to thank for getting me the book Iron 
> and Metalwork at the Glasgow school of art. The blacksmiths had a strike 
> because they said his designs could not be executed. They were.
> 
> Steve Howell
> Seattle
> 
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