Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work ... (1907)
American School of Correspondence · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 240
directly aspossible without having first determined stresses in other members.A method for doing this will now be explained ; it is called themethod of sections. Fig. 39 ((/) is a partial copy of Fig. 16. The line LL is in-tended to indicate a section of the truss cutting members24, si and 36i Fig.… … Fig. 39. Since each part of the truss is at rest, all the forces acting oneach part are balanced, or in equilibrium. The forces acting oneach part consist of the loads and reactions applied to that part to-crether with the forces exerted upon it by the other part. Thus theforces which hold the part…
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