Van Nostrand's eclectic engineering magazine (1869)
[New York : D. Van Nostrand] · leaf 45
ge, the play of the counters be taken up, the truss is prevent- to one panel weight of the rolling load on each counterbrace throughout the truss, ed from recoiling when the weight is We will now take up some other forms removed, and a great degree of rigidity is secured. If the ties of a Howe… … triangles. Those members, the tops of ments of strain due to the displacements which incline towards the centre, are of the rolling load, are obtained from the braces, and those sloping in the contrary usual formula, by giving to m successive direction are ties. When the panels are values of 0.5 to…
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