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 191
ersthe otherwise free space of thehall. A substitute for the framedgirder has been found in thetubular iron girder, as in Fig. 46, made of rolled plateiron and angle irons, riveted. They require to be stiffenedby an occasional upright T iron along eachside, and across-head at least at each bearing.… … Fig. 46. TUBULAR IRON GIRDERS. 155 a rule for the area of the bottom flange; in which a equalsthe area of the flange in inches, W the weight in pounds atthe middle, / the length and d the depth of the girder, bothin feet, and k the safe load in pounds per inch with whichthe metal may be loaded, and…
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