The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 86
horizontal force on the abutments. The following method will explain the cause of the horizontalthrust of the arch, and serve in estimating its amount. Let the ac-companying diagram represent the half of an arch, and its own loadconsidered as a separate statical system. And to make the case… … load here represented will not, in that case, have any external forceactii g upon it to modify the effect of its weight on the half arch. :iu» THK CIVIL ENGINKER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. [March Let it also be supposed that the half arch removed had the effectof exerting on the half arch represented…
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