DISCUSSION. EXPERIMENTS FOR DETERMINING THE POSITION OF THE NEUTRAL AXIS OF RECTANGULAR BEAMS OF CAST AND WROUGHT IRON AND WOOD, AND ALSO FOR ASCERTAINING THE RELATIVE AMOUNT OF COMPRESSION AND EXTENSION AT THEIR UPPER AND UNDER SURFACES, WHEN SUBJECTED TO TRANSVERSE STRAIN.

Keywords: IRON, CAST, WROUGHT, WOOD, BEAMS, POSITIONS, CALCULATING, RECTANGULAR, NEUTRAL, AXIS, COMPRESSION, EXTENSIONS, TRANSVERSE, STRAIN, EXPERIMENTS, RAILWAYS, BARS