¶ Gusset (1)
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Gusset:
“Since cubes make such poor structures, the only way that men are able to stabilize the cubical buildings they do build is by going to the corners where the members come together at 90 degrees and putting in little triangular gusset-plate reinforcements. Sometimes this vertexial triangulation of quadrangular buildings is done with a whole lot of nails, but in a big steel building it is done by putting in triangular patterns by riveting or welding in the gusseting. The triangular steel gussets at the corners of interstices of steel structures must withstand the prying action of the lever arm of the full length of the beam to which each gusset is attached. The builders are able to make the building ‘stand’ because of the excessive use of steel and massive inertia but not because the building is really well designed.”
¶ Citations
- RBF Conceptuality of FundamentalStructures, Ed. Kepes., 1965, p. 82.
