"Impact in Railway Bridges -- Retrospect and Present-day Aspect." |
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adopted allowance for impact BECCLES bridge design bridge engineers bridge oscillations Bridge Stress Committee British railways British Standards British Standards Institution calculation causes of impact cent Claxton Fidler's formula constant working stress Continent counterbalance weights dead load deflection driving wheels dynamic effects effect of rolling effects of impact elastic limit engine hammer-blow experimental extent factor of safety feet span formula for impact frictional damping girder bridges high speed impact allowance impact effects impact formula impact problem important Indian Indian Railway load to live lurching mass natural frequency Pencoyd formula practical prescribed Professor Inglis railway bridges Railway Engineers range of stress ratio of dead regard rolling load rules semi-amplitude series of tests short spans Sir Benjamin Baker span increased static live load strength strength of material stress formulas stress recorders structure theory of bridge tons per square track various spans vibrations Wöhler's experiments zero span