A manual of naval architecture. For the use of officers of the Royal Navy, officers of the Mercantile Marine, shipbuilders, shipowners, and yachtsmen (1889)
White, W. H. (William Henry), Sir, 1845-1913 · London, J. Murray · leaf 413
is obviously quite ineffective: for in Fig.102, if any two timbers abutting on one another in a rib or framewere considered to act alone, and to be subjected to a straintending to separate the butts, they could oj)pose no resistanceexcept the friction of the dowel, which would be very trifling.If a… … is, so to speak, covered by the strength of the unbutted ribslying on either side. In many wood ships the timbers of con-secutive ribs are bolted together, in pairs, to increase the strengthof the frame. In the case of the water-way fitted upon the beam-ends of a wood ship (Fig. 102) the various…
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