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compression will have the arrow head towards the joint,force 2-3 acts upwards, and putting these arrow heads on the reciprocaldiagram (or imagining them there) it will be seen that, to run circuitally,3-4 acts away from the joint and therefore indicates tension. Oneother factto observe is that… … 26 THE MECHANICS OF BUILDING CONSTRUCTION Applied to beams the funicular polygon forms a bending momentdiagram, but before these are further investigated it will be well toconsider the shearing forces in a beam. When a beam supported at theends carries a load there is a tendency to cut through…
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