The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 154
of the arch. The ques-tion which then arises is, how near to the intrados or extrados canthe line of resistance pass, without causing the failure of the ma-terials . Art. 13.—Experiments to determine the strength of stones toresist compression, have for the most part been made by the ap-plication… … Diagram 11. of the axis of the cube. Its point of application being in the centreof the base at p ; so that if any line be drawn through this point p, tothe edges of the block, as the line A B, the portion p A\% equalto the portion p B : and as, by the principle of the equality ofmoments, the…
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