Title: Landmark Series: Continuity as a Factor in Reinforced Concrete Design, Part 2

Author(s): Hardy Cross

Publication: Concrete International

Volume: 25

Issue: 4

Appears on pages(s): 35-51

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Date: 4/1/2003

Abstract:
Continued from March 2003. Hardy Cross’ experience as a teacher is evident in these eight illustrations from "Continuity As a Factor in Reinforced Concrete Design, originally published in 1929." A Virginian, Cross graduated from Hampden-Sydney College in 1902 with a BA in English. He started teaching English at his college while he obtained his BS to continue teaching at Norfolk Academy. In 1908, he earned his BS in civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Engineering and went to work for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. He resumed his studies in 1910 to get a master’s degree in civil engineering from Harvard University in 1911. He taught at Brown University until 1918 when he returned to practice. In 1921, he started teaching at the University of Illinois where he produced his towering works on arches, the column analogy, moment distribution, and flow in conduits. In 1936, he left Illinois to head the Department of Civil Engineering at Yale University.