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The anatomy of bridgework (1906)

Thorpe, William Henry · London, E. & F.N. Spon, limited; New York, Spon & Chamberlain · leaf 30

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g to show that the breaks resulted as the joint effect ofwaste and ill-usage by the strut members, rather than by exces-sive stress in the web as reduced, is to be found in the fact thatthe girders when removed were observed to be in remarkablygood shape—i.e. the camber, marked on the, original… … a(,ia.a T/M a.ectMS.Pig. 9. Occasionally webs wUl crack through the solid unwastedplate, in a line nearly vertical; not where shear stress isgreatest, but generally at some other place, and from noapparent cause, either of stress or ill-usage. The writer hasobserved this only in the case of small…

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