Adams, Henry · London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 215
t of contra-flexure, or reversal of thrust, the joints will 200 THE MECHANICS OF BUILDING CONSTEUCTION be in compression, resisted simply by the strength of the stone. Forinstance, take the portion of the dome AB, Fig. 554, then the total inward horizontal thrust = --^^^ x i =iO cwt., and the hoop… … ./-•^ /^gf. S5S on the vertical joints will be as shown. Below the point of contra-ilexurethe joints will be in tension which may be resisted by a single belt orchain round the dome at the level of the centre of gravity of theoutward thrusts, say at X, the courses being dowelled together in orderto…
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