Hints to young architects, comprising advice to those who, while yet at school, are destined to the profession, to such as, having passed their pupilage, are about to travel and to those who, having completed their education, are about to practise, together with a model specification involving a great variety of instructive and suggestive matter (1887)
Wightwick, George · London, Lockwood · leaf 128
e, p, being deflected from thestraight line at every joint, forming a polygonalline, a, h, c, d, e, as the resultant of the insistentpressures. This line has been called by ProfessorMoseley the line of resistance, the resisting points ofthe different surfaces being all in that line. Now it is a… … Fig. 27. 116 HINTS TO YOTJNG ARCHITECTS. a wall; hence, if its lowest joint is cut by this line thewall is stable; if it cuts the extrados, unstable. Theline may be shown to be a hyperbola, though its deter-mination in walls of ordinary section is seldom required. 12. Pressure of Wind.—The usual…
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