Structural members for buildings and buildings constructed therefrom

Claim 1

A reinforced concrete structural member adapted for buildings and the like, comprising: a concrete column; a plurality of extra coarse-laid wire ropes each comprising a plurality of strands each incorporating a plurality of wires laid helically in the same angular sense to provide a built-up lay, at least two strands each incorporating a plurality of wires, said at least two strands each being of at least as great diameter as the first-mentioned strands and being helically wound in two angularly opposite senses upon said built-up lay so as to cross one another at a phase angle of about 180*, the at least two strands being spaced to expose said lay exteriorly of the wire rope, between the at least two strands so the wire rope has a substantially greater diameter at the crossings of said at least two strands than where said lay is exposed exteriorly of the wire rope; said extra coarse-laid wire ropes directly embedded in said concrete column in a three-dimensional array, in a fashion longitudinally vertically extending straight through the concrete column, but is an unstrained but unloosened stated, to reinforce the concrete column; an open-work wrapping of steel wires or wire gauze or the like directly disposed about said array in a wrapped or wound fashion; a concrete beam unitary with said concrete column; a plurality of extra coArse-laid wire ropes having a structure the same as said first-mentioned extra coarse-laid wire ropes, directly embedded in said concrete beam near the upper and lower extent thereof, in a fashion longitudinally horizontally extending through the concrete beam, but under an unstrained but unloosened state, to reinforce the concrete beam; an open-work wrapping of steel wires, or wire gauze, or the like directly disposed about said second-mentioned extra coarse-laid wire ropes; the extra coarse-laid wire ropes of the column and beam crossing one another where the column and beam join one another; and connecting means fastening the extra coarse-laid wire ropes of the column to the wire ropes of the beam where these wire ropes cross one another.