Engineering Experiment Station SeriesTexas Engineering Experiment Station, 1941 - 564 Seiten |
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Seite 360 - Historical Sketch of the Successive Improvements in Suspension Bridges to the Present Time', Transactions, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol.
Seite 493 - BENDER, CB Suspension bridges of any desired degree of stiffness: or. Theory of equilibrium of a loaded elastic beam suspended from an elastic parabolic catenary.
Seite 384 - TRACTS ON VAULTS AND BRIDGES; CONTAINING OBSERVATIONS ON THE VARIOUS FORMS OF VAULTS, ON THE TAKING DOWN AND REBUILDING LONDON BRIDGE; And ON THE PRINCIPLES OF ARCHES: Illustrated by extensive Tables of Bridges. Also, containing the PRINCIPLES OF...
Seite 281 - ... people expressed concern about the proposed modernization of the beautiful old span, I was glad to reassure them that the appearance of the bridge would not be changed. To me, Brooklyn Bridge is sacred. I pass on now to another bridge, the Florianopolis Bridge in Brazil (FIGURE 3). This is the largest bridge in South America and the longest eyebar suspension span in the world. This bridge was built in the southern part of Brazil for the Province of Santa Catharina, which has its capital on an...
Seite 49 - ... feet broad, with a handrail on one side, and planked in such a manner, that the traveller experiences all the tremulous motion of the chain, and sees himself suspended over a roaring gulph, on an agitated and restless gangway, to which few strangers dare trust themselves.
Seite 47 - ... feet wide. Between these pillars four chains are suspended by large rings, and united transversely by smaller chains. Over these chains is a flooring of planks of timber, which are renewed as often as they become decayed.
Seite 53 - ... Massachusets, consisting of a catenarian arch of 244 feet span. The road-way of this bridge is suspended between two abutments or towers of masonry, 37 feet in height, on which piers of carpentry are erected, which are 35 feet in height.
Seite 432 - I claim as my original invention, and wish to secure by letters patent, is the application of a timber foundation in place of stone, in connexion with anchor plates to support the pressure of the anchor chains or cables against the anchor masonry of a suspension bridge, for the purpose of increasing the base of that masonry, to increase the surface exposed to pressure, and to substitute wood as an elastic material in place of stone for the bedding of the anchor plates.
Seite 71 - ... one as they would be arranged according to the results of this investigation. On comparing the products of the aggregate periphery, and the aggregate area of the tubes, it appears that the boiler tubed according to the above theoretic proportion is from 23 to 26 per cent, superior to the others. " On the State of the Suspension Bridge at Montrose, after the Hurricane of the llth of October, 1838; with Remarks on the Construction of that and other Suspension Bridges, in reference to the Action...