The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 89
piers, the amount of surface overwhich the thrust will be distributed is diminished with the diminu-tion of the horizontal dimensions of the piers. In this case also thedouble arch will exert a double set of thrusts. Supposing the plan a rectangle, and that the arches and the distribution of the… … arising from the arch of which the axis is parallel to c d. We maysuppose that the forces at a, b, c, d, are all equal to P, and the forcesat e,/, g, h, are all equal to Q,since we have supposed the two halvesof each arch to be under exactly the same circumstances. Now, if we take moments about a…
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