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 260
m A, j-jj go to A, andX to the unloaded abutment, which is in accordance with the law BRIDGE-BUILDING. 235 that the weights borne by the supports are inversely as their dis-tances from the load. The manner in which the parts of the Fink Truss are com-bined, secure for it a remarkable freedom of… … Fig. 107. maintain their position normal to the curve of the chord, and thedistance from the foot of the post to the connection of the tensionbars and the chord remaining relatively the same, none of theparts are unequally strained, and the truss remains in as goodadjustment as before the…
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