Manual for railroad engineers and engineering students : containing the rules and tables needed for the location, construction, and equipment of railroads as built in the United States (1883)
Vose, George L. (George Leonard), 1831-1910 · Boston : Lee and Shepard · leaf 208
The greater the difference between A C and B C, the larger thepart of the load borne by A D, and the less the horizontal thrust,until A D becomes vertical, when it bears the whole load, and ON THE STRAINS IN GIRDERS. 1»3 there is no horizontal thrust. If the span becomes very long, thebraces A D… … and introducing the strut E F to maintain the proper distancebetween those points, and finally supporting the points G and Hfrom E and F. If the loads applied to E and F were togetherequal to that applied to D or C, the tension upon A B would bethe same whether the braces extended to D or were cut…
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