Building construction and superintendence, by F.E. Kidder ... (1896)
Kidder, Frank E. (Frank Eugene), 1859-1905 · New York, W.T. Comstock · leaf 76
co-nomical proportions for wide spans. For shorter spans a full semicircle or semi-ellipse may be ob-tained by giving a greater curve to the lower chord and continu-ing it by means of braces. Fig. 91 shows how this was accom-plished in the roof trusses over the wings of the Manufacturers andLiberal… … The trusses supporting the central roof of the Mining Building,represented in Fig. in, are also of the same type, although in thisbuilding the lower chord and braces have the form of a semi-ellipse.In both of these figures the tension members are represented bysingle lines. All the members in this…
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