Notes and examples in mechanics; with an appendix on the graphical statics of mechanism; (1903)
Church, Irving P. (Irving Porter), 1851-1931 · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 36
wheels and its axleform together a single rigid body.) The track is level. For simplicity we shall consider the platform alone as havingweight, viz., a force 6^,, applied in the centre of gravity, as COMPOUND CRANE ON CAR—WHEEL-PRESSURES. 27 shown; while the extremity C of the jib is to carry a… … >rr.^s.tilJ?^^S?^^^ Fig. 25. parts of the structure, and under the wheels. (The final practicalobject is, of course, to give sufficient strength to the parts fortheir respectiv^e duties, a matter, however, which cannot beentered into here, belonging, as it does, to the topic of Mechan-ics of…