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 162
ES APPLIED TO FLOORS. 25 seldom practised, inasmuch as either of these requires moretimber than the single floor. Where lathing and plasteringis attached to the floor-beams to form a ceiling below, thespringing of the beams, by customary use, is liable to crackthe plastering. To obviate this in… … Fig. 41. the beams to receive the lathing for the plastering) serves alike purpose very nearly as well. as- (62.—Floor-Beams.—The size of floor-beams can becertained by the preceding rules for the stiffness of materials.These rules give the required dimensions for the variouskinds of material in…
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