INDEX
- Abutments, leaning, [82], [173]
- — movements of, [158]
- — settlement of, [78]
- Adjustment of centre girders, [128]
- — of distributing girders, [120]
- Angular distortions, [88]
- Arches, equilibrium of, [162]
- — repair of, [163]
- Arrangement of cross girders, [21], [175]
- Asphalt, [26]
- Ballast, [29]
- Bearing pressure on rivets, [47], [51], [57]
- Bearings, skew, [4]
- Bottom booms, end bays, [18]
- Bracing, additional, [117]
- — effects of, [34]
- — flat bars, [37]
- — incomplete, [41]
- — sea piers, [42]
- Bridge floors, [20]
- — repairs, [107]
- — surveys, [107]
- Bridges, life of, [165]
- Breaks in T bars, [16]
- Buckling of webs, [16]
- Camber, [24], [80]
- Cast-iron arches, [80], [145]
- — — bridges, [141]
- — — columns, [7],144
- — — girders, [141]
- — — in sea water, [101]
- Centre girders, [122]
- Cinder ballast, [29]
- Cold-blast iron, [141]
- Cooling stresses in cast iron, [145]
- Construction depth, [173]
- Corrugated sheeting, [29]
- Cost of centre girders, [135]
- — of maintenance, [168]
- Counterbracing, [19]
- Cracked bedstones, [3]
- — columns, [7]
- — web plates, [13], [14], [15], [50]
- Cross girder arrangement, [21]
- — girders, fixed ends, [22], [118]
- — — rusted, [29], [97]
- — — weak, [30], [66]
- Decay and painting, [96]
- — of floor plates, [109]
- — of timber, [28], [150]
- Deflection, [85]
- — due to booms and web, [86]
- — exceptional cases, [88]
- — in new and old work, [85]
- — working formulæ, [87]
- Deformations, [73]
- Depth of girders, [23], [89], [184]
- Diagonal ties, [19], [42]
- Distortion due to temperature changes, [79], [84]
- Distributing girders, [120]
- Drainage holes, [25]
- “Drop” loads, [89]
- Dwarf walls under floors, [26]
- Early steel girders, [68]
- Economy, [184]
- Effect of earth slips, [157]
- — of floor on deflection, [88]
- — — — on stresses, [23], [30]
- — of high stress, [86]
- — of permanent way on stresses, [18]
- —of skew on bridge floors, [25]
- — — — on centre girders, [131]
- — of transverse bracings, [34]
- — of vibration on masonry, [162]
- — of wave action on sea piers, [42]
- End bays, bottom booms, [18]
- Equilibrium of masonry arches, [162]
- Examination of bridges, [107]
- Examples of cast-iron bridges overstressed, [141]
- — of high stress, [70]
- — of life of bridges, [167]
- — of rivet stress, [56]
- — of strengthening, [114]
- — — — by centre girders, [131], [134]
- Excessive bearing pressure, [51]
- Faulty workmanship, [80]
- Fixed ends to cross girders, [22], [118]
- Flange stresses, [63], [66], [67]
- Flanges, side loaded, [9], [73]
- Flat bar bracing, [37]
- Flexing of girders, [9], [74], [76]
- Flexure curves, [138]
- Fractured bedstones, [3]
- — rails, [30]
- — webs, [13], [14], [15], [50]
- Fractures in cast iron, [7], [145]
- Girder bearings, [2]
- Girders on columns, [7]
- — on masonry, [8]
- Girderwork in masonry, [101]
- Headway, [173]
- High stress, [61]
- — in cast iron, [141]
- — in rivets, [47], [52]
- Holes for drainage, [25]
- Impact, [20], [62]
- Inclination of girder ends, [23], [53]
- Incomplete bracing, [41]
- Initial set, [88]
- Interference with traffic, [177]
- Jack arches, [29], [101]
- Joints in rails, [29], [109]
- — in trough floors, [28], [180]
- Junction between metallic and masonry bridges, [183]
- — — new and old masonry bridges, [182]
- — — new and old metallic bridges, [180]
- Lattice girder stresses, [47]-[66]
- Liberal depth to girders, [23], [89], [184]
- Life of bridges, [165]
- Limit of elasticity, [61]
- Linen tapes, [172]
- Longitudinal floor girders, [23]
- Loose rivets, [21], [25], [51], [53], [56], [109]
- Main girders, [9]-[17]
- Masonry bridges, [157]
- — enduring character of, [161]
- Memel timber, [150]
- Methods of calculation, [46], [61]
- — of observing deflection, [90]
- — of setting out deflection curves, [138]
- Movements of abutments, [158]
- — of cast-iron bridge, [82]
- — of piers, [42], [83], [159]
- — of rollers, [7]
- — of wrought-iron bridges, [4], [21], [38], [73]
- New members to old work, [116]
- Oiling steelwork, [99]
- Old drawings unreliable, [108]
- — rivets, [21], [51], [54], [55]
- Open webs, [17]
- Overhead bracing, [39]
- — girders, [118]
- Painting, [98]
- Parapets, [79]
- Permissible stress in old work, [110]
- Piers, movements of, [42], [83], [159]
- — out of plumb, [159]
- Piles, decay of, [102], [150]
- Pitch pine, [28]
- Plasticity, [61]
- Plate webs, [9]
- Plated floors, [23], [25], [30]
- Pointing masonry, [164]
- Proposed rivet stresses, [58]
- Quickly applied loads, [89]
- Rail joints, [29], [109]
- Rails, breaks in, [30]
- Reaction of cross girder with centre support, [127]
- Red-lead, [98], [100]
- Relative merits of bridges, [169]
- Relief by centre girders, [122]
- Repainting, [100]
- Repair of bridges, [107], [147], [155], [163]
- — of timber piles, [156]
- Replacing flange plates, [110]
- — rivets, [111]
- Resistance of cast iron to rust, [101]
- Riveted connections, [45], [86]
- Rivets in cramped positions, [20]
- — in cross girder ends, [21], [49], [53], [54]
- — in road bridges, [60]
- — in webs of main girders, [46]
- — spacing of, [60], [80]
- — stresses in, [56]
- Rocking of piers, [8], [83], [159]
- Roller bearings, [7]
- Rubble masonry, [161]-[164]
- Running load and deflection, [95]
- Rusting, instances of, [29], [96]
- — of steelwork, [99]
- — over sea-water, [98]
- Sag in timber bridges, [150]
- — of tapes, [172]
- Scour under piers, [161]
- Sea piers, [42], [102]
- Setting bedstones, [3], [129], [176]
- Settlements, [76], [157]
- Skew bearings, [4]
- — bridges, right and left, [173]
- — — floors, [25]
- Skirting plate, [26]
- Slope of girder ends, [92]
- Softening of cast-iron in sea-water, [101]
- Spacing of rivets, [60], [79]
- Spread of abutments, [157]
- Spring joints, [23]
- Steel trough girders, [68]
- — troughing, [70]
- Stiffening girders from floor, [12], [40]
- — to webs, [16], [38], [185]
- Stop piers, [158]
- Strength of light top booms, [40]
- Strengthening of bridges, [107], [122]
- — bridge floors, [118]
- — cross girders, [123]
- Stress in plated floors, [31]
- Study of old bridges, [185]
- Tall piers, [42], [159]
- Timber bridges, [149]
- — floors, [27]
- — staging, [177]
- Top booms, [18]
- Traffic during reconstruction, [177]
- Transverse bracing, [34], [117]
- Trough floors, [27], [180]
- — girders, [50], [74]
- T stiffeners, breaks in, [16]
- Twin girders, [15], [75]
- Twisting of girders, [11], [68], [73]
- — — — corrected, [12]
- Types of reconstruction, [174]
- U-shaped booms, [18]
- Uncomplicated stress, [62]
- Uniform pressure on bearings, [6]
- Value of E in deflection formulæ, [87]
- Vibration, [162]
- Wasted webs, [14], [29], [96]
- Water, scour of, [161]
- Web buckling, [16]
- — plates, cracked, [13], [14], [15], [50]
- — rivets, [46], [50]
- — stiffening, [16], [38], [185]
- Widening masonry bridges, [182]
- — metallic bridges, [179]
- Wide spaced rivets, [79]
- Wind pressure, [41], [43]
- Yielding of piers, [8], [83], [159]
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