The American house-carpenter; a treatise on the art of building, and the strength of materials (1873)
Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879 · New York : J. Wiley · leaf 189
ted or concentrated, so that its centre of gravity occurs atsome other point than the middle of the beam, then the amountof pressure caused by the load on one -of the points of supportis unequal to that on the other. The precise amount on eachmay be ascertained by the following rule. Rule.—Multiply… … Pig. 219. amount of pressure on the remote point of support, A. Again,deduct this amount from the weight, w, and the remainderwill be the amount of pressure on the near point of support,B; or, multiply the weight, 10, by its distance, A C> from theremote point of support, A, and divide the…
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