A Treatise on the Strength of Bridges and Roofs: With Practical Applications and Examples for the Use of Engineers and Students

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D. Van Nostrand, 1873 - 346 páginas
 

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Página 339 - Of rectangular pillars of timber it was proved experimentally that the pillar of greatest strength, where the length and quantity of material is the same, is a square.
Página 5 - If three forces acting at one point balance ; three lines parallel to their directions •will form a triangle whose sides ivill be proportional to the forces.
Página 345 - Solution valid for large values of the ratio between the thickness of the plate and the diameter of the crack has been obtained.
Página 245 - L, the longitudinal strain, is now in the line of the arc member, instead of in the line of the tangent to the curve at the point x.

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