Notes On Building Construction Second Stage Or Advanced Course

Author : T. Mitchell Hastings
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780666744333
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Notes on Building Construction, Vol. 2 written by T. Mitchell Hastings and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Notes on Building Construction, Vol. 2: Second Stage or Advanced Course He should be acquainted with the best forms for struts, ties, and beams, such as floor joists, exposed to transverse stress. He should know the difference in the strength of a girder carry ing a given load at its centre, or uniformly distributed. In the ordinary kinds of wooden or iron roof trusses, and framed structures of a similar description, he should be able to distinguish the members in compression from those in tension. He should be able, in the case of a concentrated or uniform load upon any part of a beam supported at both ends, to ascertain the proportion of the load transmitted to each point of support. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.