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 84
orm that the weight ofeach link or portion is held in equilibrium by the result oftwo forces acting at its extremities ; and these forces, ortensions, are produced, the one by the vv^eight of the portionof the chain below the link, the other by the same weightincreased by that of the link itself,… … VIADUCT AT CHAUMONT. PECULIARITIES OF THE ARCH. 5 I only they will act in contrary directions, so that they arccompounded in a similar manner, and balance each other onthe same conditions. The arch thus formed is denominated a catenary arch.In common cases, it differs but little from a circular…
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