Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Towle, George M. (George Makepeace), 1841-1893 · Boston : J.R. Osgood and Company · leaf 153
at wood which has not been long bathed in water, and hasbeen scarcely two years cut, rots very rapidly when closed in,especially at its extremities fixed in the walls. We will adopt,then, the ashlaring system applied to the walls, to receive 150 THE STORY OF A HOUSE. the ends of the joists, and as… … J\ / f vv a-. Fig. 32. the largest that we have, square wood of >18 c. will he suffi-cient. If we judge that they are not, we will establish anintermediate beam; this remains to be seen. These joists,placed on their diagonal, have always their highest resistingpower at the bending. We will space…
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