Radford's cyclopedia of construction; carpentry, building and architecture. Based on the practical experience of a large staff of experts in actual constrcution work (1909)
Johnson, Alfred Sidney, 1860-, Radford, William A., 1865- · Chicago Radford Architectural Co · leaf 131
of the verb to truss, as expressing totie up, we truss or tie up the point D, and theframe ABC is a trussed frame. In like manner, 112 PRACTICAL CARPENTRY F being established as a fixed point, G is trussedto it. In every trussed frame there must obviouslybe one series of component parts in a state… … FIG. 134 pieces AB, BC are compressed, and AC, DB areextended; yet in general the tie DB is called aking post, a term which conveys an altogetherwrong idea of its duties. Thus we see how thetwo principal rafters, by their being incapable ofcompression, and the tie beam by its being in-capable of…
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