Building construction and superintendence, by F.E. Kidder ... (1896)
Kidder, Frank E. (Frank Eugene), 1859-1905 · New York, W.T. Comstock · leaf 33
loaded than the other, counter-braces should be used, as indicatedby the dotted lines, and a rod placed at the centre to take up thevertical component of the stress in the counter-braces. If themembers d and e, h and k are made and connected so as to resistboth tension and compression, the… … Fig. 20. In this truss the loads at A and B, when uniform and symmetri-cal, are borne by the frame a b c. The load at C is supported by thebraces h and k, and these again by the ties d and e, which transmitthe vertical components of the stresses in h and k to the points Aand B. The tie t resists…
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