Van Nostrand's eclectic engineering magazine (1869)
[New York : D. Van Nostrand] · leaf 593
traps. The most advantageous system of skew arches in respect to stability, is that com- posed of right arcs en retraite; the only in- convenience being a series of redans on the Draw through O, IK perpendicular intrados side which have a disagreeable to AA' and BB'. The total weight of the arch… … n equal slices by planes through O V, C, D (Fig. 6), represent the section of an making equal angles; and that the figure arch of this kind made by a vertical plane shows the section of one of these made through O V. Let oB, inn, st, nv, DC, by its vertical plane of symmetry. be the traces of the…
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