Building construction and superintendence, by F.E. Kidder ... (1896)
Kidder, Frank E. (Frank Eugene), 1859-1905 · New York, W.T. Comstock · leaf 454
ly be fullyas economical and much better where there is sufficient height, touse a trussed girder of one of the types described below, and whenthe span exceeds 30 feet these are generally the only kind of woodengirders that will afford the necessary strength. The most common method of trussing… … The most common fault found in such girders is that the rod is notlarge enough, and is not placed at a sufficient depth below the girder.The author has seen a pair of beams trussed with a belly-rod wherethe rod did not go below the bottom of the beams, and very oftenbut a little below. Now all…
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