Hatfield, Robert Griffith, 1815-1879. [from old catalog] · New York & London, Wiley and Putnam · leaf 145
ill be the pressure, and vice versa. Hencetremendous strains may be exerted by a comparatively smallv.^eight. 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.… … Fig. 183. FRAMING. 131 for the weight would be in that line. But, as it rarely occurs insystems of framing that weights can be supported by any singleresistance, they requiring generally two or more supports, (as inthe case of a roof supported by its rafters,) it becomes important,therefore, to…
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