Van Nostrand's eclectic engineering magazine (1869)
[New York : D. Van Nostrand] · leaf 413
agine the angle of friction of the in length, 1.9 width (dimension in plane of paper) and 3.60 thick, leaning against edge on the wall was. This proves the each other at the top and against piers 7.7 first proposition in Ut,. 1. Even if the high, 1.98 wide and 3.6 thick at their bot- thrust at the… … pier, and yet it stood well. The same izontal, it will be found that the final re- thing may be seen on investigating Mr. sultant passes outside the base of pier ; Bland's exps. on rafters, p. 70. Until hence, such an assumption is false. The such palpable errors as we have noted construction (Fig.…
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