A Treatise on Bracing: With Its Application to Bridges and Other Structures of Wood Or IronVan Nostrand, 1874 - 48 Seiten |
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abutment action adapted Analytic Mechanics angle application arrangement Bessemer Process Blow-Pipe braced structure Bridge cast-iron CHAPTER Civil Engineer Cloth compres compression considerable construction curve diagrams direction employed engravings experiments extrados feather Figure 22 Figure 49 flexible arches formula girder Guns horizontal bracing horizontal thrust Hypsometry joints length lever rule line of pressures linear lithographic plates load longitudinal member lower beam Manufacture Marine Engine material maximum strain Mechanics Merrimack River method Mining Mississippi River Naval numerous parabola pier Q plate-bracing PRACTICAL TREATISE Railway represent revised and enlarged roadway Roofs Section seen in Figure shown by Figure sockets span spandrils Steam Engine Steel strength strut Students Submarine Survey Table Telegraph tension tensive strain text-book tion trenails TRUSS BRIDGES trussing tube ture U. S. Navy upper beam Valve vertical element voussoirs Water weight WILLIAM HEWSON wood-cuts wrought iron ZERAH COLBURN
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