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 357
firstassume that the loads are concentrated at theintersection of the truss members, and the effectof actual distribution along the members is thendetermined, separately treating the members as 322 FEAMING beams. Other more elaborate and complicatedtrusses are all built up on this principle of… … Fig. 171. Simple Roof Trusses. of comse, tend to spread at the bottom and pushthe walls apart. This is prevented by a woodentie-beam, as at C, or by an iron tie-rod, as atD. But after a certain span has been exceeded,the tie-beam commences to sag and has to besupported either by a king-post or by a…
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