Lightweight metallic structures

Abstract

The first part of this paper is being published in the present issue of «Informes de la Construcción», and will be followed by two further parts in the next two numbers of this magazine. It corresponds to the manuscript utilised for the two lecturers given at Costillares by professor Hermann Beer. These lectures were given on March 8 and 9th last. Professor Beer, professor of the High Technical School of Graz, Austria, is President of the Committee II of A.I.P.C. and of the Committee VIII of the European Convention on Metallic Construction, and has worldwide reputation in the field of metallic structures. The up to date nature of the subject and the abundant graphical documentation which illustrates it has led this Institute to believe that it will be of great interest to professionals to publish the text of these lectures. It should be emphasized that professor Beer knows Spanish very well. He learnt this language during the years he was professor at the University of Tucumán, in Argentina. In the following text the Institute has only introduced some slight adjustments of syntax and spelling.