Glen Summit Paper - The Tests and Requirements of Structural Wrought-Iron and Steel

Tars paper is suggested by the appointment on the part of the American Societies of Mechanical and of Civil Engineers of committees upon the subjects of " Standard Tests and Methods of Testing," and " Uniform Methods of Tests of Material used in Metallic Structures," respectively, and by a study of the report of one of these committees, and other papers. Moreover, the writer has had frequent occasion to hear the complahts of tnanufacturers who furnish structural material subject to specifications, that in the tests prescribed, the number of tests required, and the methods of making