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 361
s are not used, the differ-ent members being built up of 2 by 10 and 2 by12-inch pieces, spiked together to break jointsas sj)ecified on the drawing. Light Truss for 100-Foot Span. In design-ing trusses of wide span such as those used tosupport temporary roofs of light construction,the same… … Defait of SfiticK tn tie beam ^ ^ -K- ^ >u- t Fig. 175. Light Truss for 100-Foot Span. at the width of span, trying to arrange framingadequate to the task, lay out a series of mem-bers not a truss at all, but a numl^er of quadri-lateral panels which offer little resistance tochange of form, and…
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