9 million tramping feet on a hardwood floor
In This Series
- Solid rectangular column factors (sawn sections) loads at unit stress
- solid rectangular column factors (planed sections) April 1962
- solid rectangular beam factors (sawn sections) uniformly distributed loads at unit stress (continued) – April 1962
- solid rectangular beam factors (planed sections) uniformly distributed loads at unit stress – April 1962
- resistance of wood to decay – June 1974
Strolling, dancing, shuffling, tramping. Nine million pairs of feet have passed this way. But the floor today still keeps its luxury look, its new appearance. It is a hardwood floor installed nine years ago at the Royal Festival Hall, London. No doubt about hardwood floors—they last.
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