Van Nostrand's eclectic engineering magazine (1869)
[New York : D. Van Nostrand] · leaf 488
, and more especially trussed which I have used in determining the rafters, of great length are not in common strains in horizontal girders,* are suffi- use, and there may seem to be little need cient reasons for the following investiga- of the results of the investigations of the tions as an… … complicated if not altogether impracti- Mr. Stoney in his work on Strains, page cable." 77, says of the strains affecting rafters, This may be true in a certain sense only, " an accurate investigation would be very as we cannot tell what lines strains take in a solid beam, whether inclined or hori…
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