The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 61
maximnm ofstrength possible to a given weight of material. In a somewhat differentfield, this is precisely what is accomplished in the corrugated culvert andbridge flooring arches: and it is interesting to incpiire whether the sameprinciples do not underly the efficiency of both forms. l-ig. 1… … that when a bar f>r )>eam of this shape is subjected to bending, as in lig. 2,the n|)i)er flanges or U<p fibers of the metal are subjected to a compressingstress, while the lower flanges or bottom fibers are subjected to a stretch-ing or tensile stress; and. of course, the strength of the…
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