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Details of highway bridges (1906)

Frost, John Henry · leaf 48

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onnection is impracticable for ordinary highway bridges for the following reasons. Practice has proved the con-a b nections to the top of the end posts ef-fective; ordinary connections to thesides of the posts subject the rivets of the connection to tensilestresses; and it would be unwise to… … Pig. 36 and B-C take the stress and the other members are inserted to 22 stiffen B-C and to decrsas© its unsupported distance. The connect-ing plates are field riveted to the top of the posts as shovm.This is a good detail as connecting plates like these, should neverbe shop riveted to a heavy…

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