Building construction and superintendence, by F.E. Kidder ... (1896)
Kidder, Frank E. (Frank Eugene), 1859-1905 · New York, W.T. Comstock · leaf 43
29, due to the external load only, while ina king-rod truss, such as is shown in Fig. 8, the stress from thesame load is represented by the line r1. As the size of the truss members is governed principally by thestresses, it is evident that for the same span and loads a truss ofthe shape shown in… … Fig. 3; Fig. 32. but being quite different in principle, is shown in Fig. 32. In thistruss the pieces c c are in tension their full length, and should passby each other. The piece B, in this truss is in compression, andmust be of pretty large dimensions to resist the compressive stress.This type of…
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