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The anatomy of bridgework (1906)

Thorpe, William Henry · London, E. & F.N. Spon, limited; New York, Spon & Chamberlain · leaf 42

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h girder-web, the whole of themore important parts being open to the painter. Trough floors consisting of one or other of the forms ofpressed or rolled section present the objection that it is almostimpracticable to arrange an eflBcient connection at the ends,if they abut against main girders, and… … Fig. 19. water and dirt escape on to the flange, or other ledge, whichsupports them. A description of pressed floor which pro-mises to overcome this objection, and provide a ready meansof attachment to the webs of plate-girders, or of boomshaving vertical plate-webs, has within the last few years…

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