Building construction and superintendence, by F.E. Kidder ... (1896)
Kidder, Frank E. (Frank Eugene), 1859-1905 · New York, W.T. Comstock · leaf 79
russ for steel construction. Fortrusses having a span of 75 feet or less the suspending pieces shouldbe radials, but in trusses of larger spans they may be vertical, as inFig. 97. Bowstring trusses of the form shown in Fig. 97 have been muchused in England and to a considerable extent in this… … There are numerous examples of wrought iron bowstring rooftrusses of from 120 to 211 feet span, principally in the roofs of trainsheds. A truss of the shape shown in Fig. 97, with a span of 212feet, a total rise of 40 feet 6 inches and a depth in the centre of 23ft. 6 ins., was constructed with a…
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