The theory and practice of modern framed structures : designed for the use of schools, and for engineers in professional practice (1897)
Johnson, J. B. (John Butler), 1850-1902, Bryan, C. W. (Charles Walter), 1863-1927, Turneaure, Frederick Eugene, 1886- · New York : J. Wiley & Sons · leaf 313
ways be designed withparallel end posts. The portal if necessarily shallow is composed of one strut the cross-section of which issimilar to a plate or single-web lattice girder. If the depth of truss admits of it, a strut at thetop of the end post and one as far down as the required headroom will… … strut with knee braces, and is the common form for short spans. The stresses * are given inthe most convenient terms to use. For through bridges in which the height of truss will admit of it intermediate sway braeing is put in between the posts at each panel. This sway bracing usually consists of a…
