Progress Report of Special Committee on Steel Columns and Struts

The Special Committee authorized by vote of this Society “to consider and report upon the design, ultimate strength and safe working values of Steel Columns and Struts” submits the following report of progress. Your Committee met and organized on January 6th, 1909. Since that time four meetings of the Committee as a whole and numerous sub-committee meetings have been held. Time and labor have been spent in collecting existing literature on the subject of tests of compression members, in investigating and compiling the data now accessible, in a preliminary consideration of the extent to which it is safe to draw conclusions from data now available, and in a study of the possibility of securing additional information.