The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 81
ract.and .still maintain its level above and at the base ofthe bridge There is a special device with eccentric bearuigs so the i)ridgeis comi)elled to lift one or more of its parts, or sections, before the wholestructure can move out nf a perpendicular line, thus it is made self-adjusting in storm.… … The Architect and Engineer 75 proposed bridge is so constructed that each part has a substitute part, and ifany one part gives way, another takes its place in holding up the enormousstructure. These are ten 20-inch flexible steel cables, having a tensile strengthof 35,000 tons each, five of which…
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