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 302
a large bridge, itwill often be found that the rods are unequally expanded, so as notto go on to the pins until time is given to allow the variousbars to acquire an equal temperature. Several methods of ac-commodating the expansion at one end of a span are shown in thePlates. A combined rocker and… … Fig. 114. only. Fig. 115 shows the connection between the lateral bracingand the chords adopted by the Keystone Bridge Company. Thelateral bracing is a very essential feature in all work of this class,and especial care should be paid to it in trestle work and in pilebridging, particularly when the…
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