Adams, Henry · London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 196
that the line of thrust produced by means of Fig. 514 would be acatenary curve, almost identical with the circular arc. The diagonalresultant of the reactions, as shown on the left, would be tangent to thecatenary as shown by the full line, while the tangent to the circularcurve is shown by the… … load into concentrated portions. Under a fully distributed load thebending moment at any point x might be taken as = ^^ which v would give a parabolic outline. The bending moment is, however,only part of the stress to be resisted by the curved strut, it will havein addition the direct load, the…
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