l tlieymay be composed) are like the muscles of the animal framewhen strained beyond their reasonable powers of resistance.They may for a time endure the load, and probably a few repe-titions of it; but the result generally is, either the rupture of * Tlie xiltimate strength having been first… … w^mmm^ It therefore follows, that every description of material, whensubjected to a transverse strain, should never be urged to greater FIRE-rROOF WAREHOUSES. 177 endurance than may be required to straighten the fibres, orarraug-e the molecules of its crystalline structure. Any strainbeyond that…
Building, Iron and steel
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