Thorpe, William Henry · London, E. & F.N. Spon, limited; New York, Spon & Chamberlain · leaf 26
girder towards the rails greatly exceeded thecalculated slope of the Barlow rail-ends when under load,being about five times as great. The inference is that thefloor rails bore hard at their extreme ends, at which point ofbearing the calculated twisting moment accounts for lessthan one-half of the… … ms.iz 9 S3 0 Fig. 5. injured the metal, though the bridge carried as many-asthree hundred trains daily in each direction, and had done sofor very many years. The deformation of the top flange only has been noticed,yet the same tendency exists in the bottom, though the actualamount is much less,…
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