The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 239
curte of equal horizontal thrust, was immediately apparent.Next, one of the pins at p was withdrawn, and the cord was lengthenedand attached to another pin at V, so as to retain the partp c p inits ori-ginal position. The line I p thus represented the resultant of all the forcesaclmg at p, and… … Fig. 5. Having now, it is presumed, given sufficient practical evidence of theexistence of the line of equal horizontal thrust, it only remains to notice, inthis part of the subject, that as well as the position of the point of rupturebeing denoted by it, the direction in which yielding will take…
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