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 134
rch, taken acting at the point of rup-ture ; or the sum of the moments of the weight of pierand surcharge should exceed moment of thrust. Practically, and regarding thebond and cohesion of mortar, theactive thrust of an arch is asthe horizontal component, ab, ofthe load on an inclined rigid bar,AC,… … 122 HINTS TO YOUNG ARCHITECTS. thickness of tlie abutraents to resist the thrust, it beingpremised that the pressure upon any joint betweenthe Youssoirs should be such as not to exceed a saferesisting power of the materials of the Youssoirs. For an iuYestigation into the subject of arches anddomes…
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