Thorpe, William Henry · London, E. & F.N. Spon, limited; New York, Spon & Chamberlain · leaf 53
where they cross), this objection is not itself vital,though greater rigidity is easily obtained by making all suchmembers of a stiff section. Defective bracing between girders, from neglect of thevery considerable forces it may be called upon to communi-cate, is very common ; the writer has seen… … HI were two sets, were wholly inefficient, the end rivets beingloose in enlarged holes. Upon the passage of, a train therewas a positive lurching of the girder tops from side to side. BRACING. 39 The integrity of the bridge was really dependent upon suchstiffness as there was in the girders, and…
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