The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 383
ght beam bent at right angles at top to aconvenient distance, the extremity being fitted to receive the reactionot the plates under the punch. Here the strain on the beam is up-ward. Instances of similar downward strains, too, are familiar, as insome portable balances, in which the scales hang from… … acting downwards in the line A N parallel toBC. Then it wouldappear on a general view, that the pait BC will be equally affectedthroughout, as the force, which let AD represent, has the same lever-age on all points of B C. But, more particularly, in estimating the action of the force on anypoint M,…
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