Abstract :
One of the most important problems confronting a designing engineer is the compromise between the design which, in his opinion, is best but too expensive for competition, and the design which can be built to barely meet guarantees and which can be sold for the lowest possible price. The designing engineer is at times compelled to cater to the idiosyncrasies of certain customers, whose special requirements, experience has proved, are unnecessary and detrimental to good construction, but which will be furnished by competitors who are less conscientious in this respect.
