Building construction and superintendence, by F.E. Kidder ... (1896)
Kidder, Frank E. (Frank Eugene), 1859-1905 · New York, W.T. Comstock · leaf 60
or steel rods. 26. Fig. 61 shows another type of arched truss that may be used ♦Described in the Engineering Record, of January 9, 1897. TYPES OF WOODEN TRUSSES. 5 J for wooden construction, when the span does not exceed ioo feet.This truss is built on the principle of the quadrangular truss… … be built up of planks, bent to the curve and bolted together. Itshould be remembered that the strain in the lower chord terminatesat the points X, X, and is transmitted through the rods to the endsof the rafters at A and B, the bracing oelow the points X, X beingmerely stay bracing. Counter braces…
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