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 234
e, in proportion to unity, as b is to d—from which pro-portion b — d r. E is a constant the value of which is foundin Table II. 330.—To ascertain the scantling of the stiffest beam that canbe cut from a cylinder. Let dad, (Fig. 223,) be the section,and e the centre, of a given cylinder. Draw the… … Fig. 223. 331.—Resistance to Rupture.—The resistance to deflect-tonhaving been treated of in the preceding articles, it now re-mains to speak of the other branch of resistance to crossstrains, namely, the resistance to rupture. AVhen a beam islaid horizontally and supported at each end, its…
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