Types and Details of Bridge Construction: Arch spansMcGraw pulbishing Company, 1904 - Bridges |
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abutments adjustment anchor angles riveted arch ribs arch span arch trusses beams bearing bents bolted bottom chords bottom flanges bottom lateral built cantilever carried cast cast-iron cast-steel Center Line clearance concrete connection plates cover plates cross-section crown hinge curved dead load Elevation ENGINEERING RECORD erected extrados eyebars falsework feet deep feet long field-riveted flange angles floorbeams gusset haunches highway bridge hinge pins horizontal struts I-beam I-shaped inclined joints Lateral Diagonal Lateral Strut lattice girder live load longitudinal girders lower chords lower flanges main span masonry pairs of angles panel points pedestal pin-connected plate girder platform pounds per square radial reinforced river roadway trusses rods screw seated segments semi-arch sidewalks skewback pins solid spandrel braced spandrel posts spliced square inch steel stiffened stresses stringers supported sway bracing three-hinge timber top and bottom top chords top flanges top lateral towers track transverse struts two-hinge upper vertical posts viaduct X-braced