Girder-making and the Practice of Bridge Building in Wrought Iron: Illustrated by Examples of Bridges, Pier, and Girder-work, &c. Constructed at the Skerne Iron Works, Darlington |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
30 feet 80 feet girders abutments angle iron bar iron bar or plate bear Bergslagernas Railway bolted bottom booms bottom flange bracing carried cast iron cent centre to centre composed compression Cookham Bridge cost cross girders Darlington drilled ductile edge elongation engineer equal erection feet in diameter fixed floor fracture free on board furnace girder-making girder-work hammer Huelva Pier inch thick ironwork Kistna labour lattice length longitudinal main girders material metre girders NAHR-EL-KELB pig iron piles plate iron platform puddled punched rails RIVER DEVON RIVER LIFFEY RIVER OUSE River Tees rivet holes rivet-holes rollers scrap screw sectional area SECTIONS OF ANGLE sections of iron Selby Canal shown at Fig side Skerne Company SKERNE IRON square inch steel strain strength struts superstructure SWING BRIDGE tee iron timber tons per square top and bottom various Viaduct weight whilst width wrought iron
Popular passages
Page 95 - Then in broad lustre shall be shown That mighty trench of living stone, And each huge trunk that, from the side, Reclines him o'er the darksome tide, Where Tees, full many a fathom low, Wears with his rage no common foe ; For pebbly bank, nor sand-bed here, Nor clay-mound, checks his fierce career, Condemn'd to mine a channell'd way, O'er solid sheets of marble grey.
Page 10 - On account of the increased cost, whether rolled as bars or plates, it is best to avoid, as far as possible, the use of long strips from seven to twelve inches wide, especially if less than three-eighths of an inch in thickness.