Bench work in wood; a course of study and practice designed for the use of schools and colleges (1905)
Goss, W. F. M. (William Freeman Myrick), 1859-1928 · Boston, New York, Ginn & company · leaf 145
221 ; ortransverse stress, which has a tendency to bend them, Fig. 222 ;or to two of these stresses at the same time. 190. A Timber subjected to transverse stress must alwaysbend. The fibers forming that surface which is convex or has atendency to become so (as the lower surface, A, Fig. 222)… … and B the same timber bent. It follows, then, that somewherebetween the compressed surface and the extended surface therewill be a line which is subject to neither compressional nor WOOD CONSTRUCTION. 127 tensional strain; such a line is called the neutral axis ofa timber, and will be located with…
Woodwork (Manual training)
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