Building construction and superintendence, by F.E. Kidder ... (1896)
Kidder, Frank E. (Frank Eugene), 1859-1905 · New York, W.T. Comstock · leaf 455
nly have to resist the crushing stress onthe girder, while the rod sustains all of the tensile stress. Rules for determining the stresses in belly-rod trusses are given inthe Architects and Builders Pocket Book and other handbooks. Ingeneral the strain on the tie-rod is in the proportion of the… … billing piece. A
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