The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 232
of 98 feet, which will be equal lo 220Ions for a pair of girders : taking a fourth of this weight as the safe strain,ii will give 55 tons. The calculated strain upon the girder at the time ofthe accident was 54 tons. It is the joints of these girders that require the especial atleution ofthe… … Fig. 3. Section of Proposed Girder at Joiat 208 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. [July, The cause of llie fracture we believe to be, that the girder vvas jointed,and that due consideration was not given to that circumstance in assigningtheir relative proportions to the flanges. As the…
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