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To: Don Earl who wrote (5736)	3/20/2004 1:20:05 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

Don, Re: We're probably splitting rabbits, but "heavy masonry walls", and "skeleton of steel columns and beams... encased in concrete", is "reinforced concrete" from where I'm sitting. Unless I'm completely missing something, Yup, you certainly are. "Reinforced concrete" is a precise and specific term in civil and structural engineering. I know because I spend 25 years constructing reinforced concrete foundations and other structures, steel frame buildings and light commercial buildings. You really ought to study up via Google, and I'm not going to waste my time typing what is abundantly available in civil and structural engineering texts. The entire load of the Empire State Building is carried on the steel frame. Look it up. This is 100% accurate. In reinforced concrete structures, the gravity load is carried by the compressive strength of concrete which is prevented from failure in shear or tension (i.e. wind and seismic forces) by the tensile strength of rebars, or reinforcing steel. Your imprecise language is driving me a bit batty. Get thee to an engineering dictionary and work on upgrading your slacker vocabulary, sir. :)