The American house-carpenter; a treatise on the art of building, and the strength of materials (1867)
Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 167
ill be the pressure, and vice versa. Hencetremendous strains may be exerted by a compciratively smallweight. And it follows, therefore, that a piece of timber intend-ed for a strut or post, should be so placed that its axis may coin-cide, as near as possible, with the direction of the pressure.… … T\z. 206. FRAMING. 155 for the weight would be in that line. But, as it rarely occursin systems of framing that weights can be supported by anysingle resistance, they requiring generally two or more sup-ports, (as in the case of a roof supported by its rafters,) it be-comes important, therefore, to…
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