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 209
sion is 184 MANUAL FOR RAILROAD ENGINEERS. M N, the compression upon E F is E O, and the thrust E M\instead of E M, as before. If, now, we complete the arrangement shown by A E F B, Fig.66, by adding the braces G U and H D, and the middle tie C D, inFig. 67, we have the type of a large class of… … A D B, the tie D C sustains the weight from G to H : represent-ing this by the length D C, for convenience one half of G H, anddrawing C M parallel to D B, and M N parallel to A B, the latterrepresents the tension upon A B. Again, in the system A E D F Bthe central tie D C holds the weight from Z…
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