Van Nostrand's eclectic engineering magazine (1869)
[New York : D. Van Nostrand] · leaf 219
203 VAN NOSTKAND'S ENGINEEKING MAGAZINE. weight, one of which is represented in Example 2d. Fig. 11, and is divided into panels of This truss is merely a combination of uniform length. 1 two simple trusses, each bearing half the g h i k 1 m THE WHIPPLE TKTJSS. The other represented in Fig. 12 has… … In this combination of two trusses, the I the chords, but the members subject to horizontal strains of the two are united in | vertical strains, or strains having vertical Fig. 12. H K components of one truss, act indepen- on x and ir is not the distance of its dently of the corresponding members…
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