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gravity loads and the reduced bending moments arising from wind ac-
tion, but a more rational indication of this decrease in column loads
would be a repeated uniform reduction in area as the column rises above
the grade level. The most unusual feature of the column construction
is the presence of compression reinforcing in the form of four heavy,
round bars set at the corners of a square centered on the axis of the
column, the four bound together by hoops and by diagonal ties hooked
around the rods. Designated as bearing rods in the building plans, they
are not subject to tension and hence are of smooth, round shape without
embossing. There can be little question that the idea of compression
rods bound by hoops came from Considére, who was the leading expo-
nent of this technique, but whether the Ingalls Building represents its
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horizontal sections of a typical column. (Engineering Record.)