This thesis document was issued under the authority of another institution, not NPS. At the time it was written, a copy was added to the NPS Library collection for reasons not now known. It has been included in the digital archive for its historical value to NPS. Not believed to be a CIVINS (Civilian Institutions) title.Since all framed structures have length, breadth, and thickness, all frames actually are space structures. The designer is accustomed to study the stress analysis of a truss from a viewpoint of forces in a plane, but he must take into account the extension of the members into a third dimension when he is designing lacing bars, stay plates, and diaphragms.http://www.archive.org/details/designofdecktype00wil
