Practical treatise on the construction of iron highway bridges

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INDEX. PART I. General And Descriptive. 2Btthetioal Effect w. Plain Utility 87 American and Riveted Systems Compared , 61 Angle Iron 26 Angle Irons, Section of, how Determined 64 Architecture of Bridge Building 82 Asphalt, Weight of 79 Author's Bridge Frontispiece. Beam Bridges 74 " " PlankFloor 75 " " Wood Pavement on Buckle Plates 75 " " Telford Pavement on Brick Arches 76 Bearings and Connections, Machine Made 47 Bolster Pieces 71 Braces, Main and Counter 33 " Proportions of 33 Bracing, Horizontal 67 " Sway 67 BrickWork, Weight of 79 Bridge Settings 90-96 " Platforms 74 Bridges, General Rules for Selection of 43 " How Classified 32 " Kindsof 32 " Selection of 43 Buckle Plate for Floor 73 Cast Iron 28 Chords, Strains in 32 " TheirOffice 32 Cincinnati Bridge Co.'s Bridge 90 Columns, Cast Iron, Formula for their Strength 57 " Table of Breaking Strar gth for Oast and Wrought Iron 68 " With Square Ends and with Round Ends 56 " Wrought Iron Formula for Strength 57MM Compound Riveted Girder 64 Concrete, Weight of 79 Construction, Methods of 44 Counter Braces, their Action -. 33 Corrugated Plate for Floor 73 Cross Beams 63 Decoration, Constructed 83-84 Detroit Bridge Co.'s Bridge 06 Elasticity, Limit of 13 End Struts, Method of Adding to Architectural Effect 85 Eye-Bars 61 " Their Manufacture 63 Factor of Safety 11 Fairmount Bridge 83 Fastening Iron Stringers to Floor Beams 69 Fink Suspension Truss 41 Floor-Beams 63 " Factor of Safety for 16 " Eivetingof 65 " Their Connection 66 Floor, General Type of, for Road Bridges 71-72 Flooring 69 " Examples of Permanent 73-74 " System 62 Floor Planks, Method of Laying ...