Theory of the Spherical Dome with A Homogeneous Surface, and of the Framed Dome; Also Notes On the Construction of Masonry and Metal Domes

Abstract

In this paper the writer presents what he believes to be original information on a subject, regarding which little or nothing has appeared in American engineering literature, as far as he has been able to ascertain. He has endeavored, also, to set out plainly the relations between the principal stresses in domes, and their magnitude; and, further, to acquaint American engineers with a method of framed-dome construction; simple in theory, and rational in execution.