ClIAl". I. WALLS AND PIERS.

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595. ) Draw the dlaf^oiial BD. and abort 15 make Bi/ equal to one
p;g!ith jiart of the height, if great stability be required; for a mean stability, the ninth or
tentli part
; and, for a light siaoility, the eleventh or twelftli i)art. If through the point
d a |)arallel to A B be drawn, the interval will give the thickness to be assigned to the great
walls EF, GH, whose lengtli is equal to AD.
1513. The thickness of the walls EG, FH is obtained by making AD' equal to their
length, and, having drawn the diagonal as before, p\irsuing the same operation.
1514. When the walls are of the same height but of diillrent lengths, as in
fr/. 5W>.,
'fe:--
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Imr. 536. Fig 597.
the operation may be abridged by describing on the point B
(^fig.
597.) as a centre with a
radius equal to one eighth, one tenth, or one twelfth, or such other part of the height as
may be considered necessary for a solid, mean, or lighter construction, then transferring
their lengths, EF, FG, GH, and HE from A to D, D', D", and D'"
; and liaving made
the rectangles AC, AC, AC", and AC", draw from the common point B the diagonals
BD, BD', BD", and BD"', cutting the small circle described on the point B in different
points, through which parallels to AB are to be drawn, and they will give the thickness ot'
each in proportion to its length.
1515. In
figs.
598. to 602. are given the operations for finding the thicknesses of wails
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Fig. GCI.
enclosing polygonal areas supposwd to be of the same height; thus AD represents the
side of tic hexagon
{fig.
602.); AD' that of the pentagon
{fig.
601.) ;
AD
'
the side of
the square
{fig.
599.) ;
and AD'" that of the equilateral triangle
{fig.
600.).
L516. It is manifest that, bv this method, we increase the thicknesses of the walls in
pro])orlion to their heights and lengths ;
for one or the other, or both, cannot increase or
diminish without the same ha])]iening to the diagonal.
I SI?. It is obvious that it is easy to calculate m numbers the results thus geometrically
ohtaine-:! bj- the simple rule of three; for, knowing the three sides of the trial
g
e ABD.