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 251
214 CONSTRUCTION. 232.—Roof-Truss witli Elevated Tie-Beam.—Designssuch as are shown in Fig. 91 have the tie elevated for the ac-commodation of an arch in the ceiUng. This and all similardesigns are seriously objectionable, and should always be … avoided; as the smaii height gained by the omission of thetie-beam can never compensate for the powerful lateralstrains which are exerted by the oblique position of the
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