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The American house-carpenter; a treatise upon architecture, cornices and mouldings, framing, doors, windows, and stairs. Together with the most important principles of practical geometry (1852)

Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879 · New York : J. Wiley · leaf 147

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er will be the pressure, and vice versa. Hencetremendous strains may be exerted by a comparatively smallweight. And it follows, therefore, that a piece of timber intend-ed for a strut or post, should be so placed that its axis may coin-cide, as near as possible, with the direction of the pressure.… … fig. 183. FRAMING. 131 for the weight would be in that line. But, as it rarely occurs insystems of framing that weights can be supported by any singleresistance, they requiring generally two or more supports, (as inthe case of a roof supported by its rafters,) it becomes importanttherefore, to know…

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