Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work (1912)
American Technical Society · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 230
the beam are in tension. For our present purposewe may consider that the forces C and T are in each case the resultantof the forces acting on a very large number of fibres. The stressin the outer fibres is of course greatest. At the center of the height,there is neither tension nor compression.… … Fig. 90. Position of Neutral Axis. Fig. 91. Neutral Axis in Narrow Beam. one set of fibres, one above the other, as shown in Fig. 91. In thecase of a plain, rectangular, homogeneous beam, the stresses in thefibres would be as given in Fig. 90; the neutral axis would be at thecenter of the height,…
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