 | Jacob Bigelow - Industrial arts - 1829 - 584 pages
...same kind, and fixed in the same manner, in resisting a transverse force which tends to break them, is simply as their breadth, as the square of their...they act. The increase of the length of a beam must obviously 'weaken it, by giving a mechanical advantage to the power which tends to break it; and some... | |
 | Jacob Bigelow - Industrial arts - 1831 - 596 pages
...same kind, and fixed in the same manner, in resisting a transverse force which tends to break them, is simply as their breadth, as the square of their...they act. The increase of the length of a beam must obviously weaken it, by giving a mechanical advantage to the power which tends to break it ; and some... | |
 | Jacob Bigelow - Industrial arts - 1840 - 412 pages
...Thus if a beam be twice as broad as another, it will also be twice as strong ; but if it be twice aa deep, it will be four times as strong ; for the increase...they act. The increase of the length of a beam must obviously weaken it, by giving a mechanical advantage to the power which tends to break it ; and some... | |
 | Thomas Young - Science - 1845 - 660 pages
...the stiffness of columns is of more consequence than their strength in resisting transverse fracture. The strength of beams of the same kind, and fixed...strong ; for the increase of depth not only doubles * Robison's Mech. Phil. i. ยง 374, &c. the numlxT of the resisting particles, hut also gives each of... | |
 | Jacob Bigelow - Industrial arts - 1853 - 400 pages
...same kind, and fixed in the same manner, in resisting a transverse force which tends to break them, is simply as their breadth, as the square of their...they act. The increase of the length of a beam must obviously weaken it, by giving a mechanical advantage to the power which tends to break it ; and some... | |
 | John McNeill Boyd - Naval art and science - 1857 - 526 pages
...weight should be thrown on the centre than elsewhere. If a beam be twice as broad as another, it will be twice as strong ; but if it be twice as deep, it will be four times as strong. The strength of a beam supported at both ends, is twice as great as that of a single beam of half the... | |
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The strength of beams of the same kind, and fixed in the same manner, in resisting a transverse force which tends to break them, is simply as their breadth, as the square of their depth, and inversely as their length. Thus if a beam be twice as broad... 