The American house carpenter. A treatise on the art of building. Comprising styles of architecture, strength of materials, and the theory and practice of the construction of floors, framed girders, roof trusses, rolled-iron beams, tubular-iron girders, cast-iron girders, stairs, doors, windows, mouldings, and cornices; together with a compend of mathematics. A manual for the practical use of architects, carpenters, stair-builders, and others (1880)
Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879, Hatfield, O. P., ed · New York, J. Wiley & sons · leaf 101
mthe blocks, A and A. If a piece of each block be cut off at 64 CONSTRUCTION. the horizontal line, a ;/, the feet of the struts would slideaway from each other along- that line, in the direction na;but if, instead of these, two pieces were cut off at the verti-cal line, nb, then the struts would… … Fig. 24. construct the parallelogram of forces by drawing 0 c parallelto an, and of parallel to bn; then nf (by the same scale)shows the number of tons pressure that is exerted by thestrut in the direction n a, and ;/ e shows the amount exertedin the direction n b. By constructing designs similar…
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