 | Mechanical engineering - 1847 - 190 pages
...in thickness11 X 1-5 X 16 X 3-2 = 8-H-8 IbsResistance of Bodies to flexure by vertical PressureWhen a piece of timber is employed as a column or support,...times its diameter, it is impossible to bend it by nny force applied longitudinally, as it will be destroyed by splitting before that bending can take... | |
 | Peter Barlow - Building materials - 1851 - 608 pages
...of timber is compressed in the direction of its length, it yields to the force in a different manner according to the proportion between its length and area of its cross section ;" and that in case of a cylinder whose length is less than seven or eight times its diameter, it is impossible... | |
 | Oliver Byrne - Engineering - 1852 - 604 pages
...in the middle of its length, and also the deflection in the middle which that weight will produce. Resistance of Bodies to Flexure by Vertical Pressure. — When a piece of tirrfber is employed as a column or support, its tendency to yielding by compression is different according... | |
 | Charles Haslett - Engineering - 1855 - 482 pages
...a piece of timber is employed as a coluirm or support, its tendency to. yielding by, jcoinptessiou is ..different according to the proportion between...whose length is less than seven or eight times its dialneter, ijt is imp.issiblr to bend it by any force ' applied longitudinally, as .it: will be destroyed... | |
 | Charles W. Hackley - Engineering - 1856 - 530 pages
...16 feet in length, 11 inches in breadth, and 1-| inch in thickness. 11 x 1-5 x 16 x 8-2-= 844-8 Ibs. Resistance of Bodies to Flexure by Vertical Pressure....yielding by compression is different according to th« proportion between its length and area of its cross section ; and supposing the form that of a... | |
 | Charles Haslett, Charles William Hackley - Engineering - 1859 - 574 pages
...thickness. 11 x 1-8 x 18 x 8-2 = 844-8 Ibs. Resistance of Bodies to flexure by Vertical Pres/ntre. When a piece of timber is employed as a column or...seven or eight times its diameter, it is impossible to betid it by any force applied longitudinally, as it will be destroyed by splitting before that bending... | |
 | Peter Barlow - Building materials - 1867 - 460 pages
...of timber is compressed in the direction of its length, it yields to the force in a different manner according to the proportion between its length and area of its cross section ;" and that in case of a cylinder whose length is less than seven or eight times its diameter, it is impossible... | |
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Resistance of bodies to flexure by vertical pressure. When a piece of timber is employed as a column or support, its tendency to yielding by compression is different according to the proportion between its length and area of its cross section ; and supposing... 