STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS' HANDBOOK DATA FOR THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF STEEL BRIDGES AND BUILDINGS

MILO S. KETCHUM, C.E.

1918

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Contents

• DATA AND DETAILS FOR THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF STEEL BRIDGES: 1
• Miscellaneous Loads: 7
• Transverse Bents: 53
• Pitch of Truss: 54
• Spacing of Trusses and Transverse Bents: 54
• STEEL OFFICE BUILDINGS: 69
• Loads on Foundations: 75
• Allowable Stresses: 104
• Types of Truss Bridges: 107
• Highway Bridge Floors: 112
• Calculation of Stresses: 115
• STEEL RAILWAY BRIDGES: 149
• Kinds of Stress: 161
• Material: 173
• Floorbeam Connections: 184
• Introduction: 225
• Calculation of the Pressure on Retaining Data: 236
• General Principles of Design: 241
• Principles of Design: 248
• Preparing the Foundations: 262
• Examples of Railway and Highway Bridge Specifications for Stone Masonry: 269
• TIMBER BRIDGES AND TRESTLES: 277
• Stresses in Bin Walls: 299
• Pressure of Sand: 305
• Stresses in Deep Bins: 311
• STEEL GRAIN ELEVATORS: 319
• STEEL HEAD FRAMES AND COAL TIPPLES: 339
• STEEL STANDPIPES AND ELEVATED TANKS ON TOWERS: 365
• Properties of Watertight Joints: 379
• Details of Steel Towers: 387
• Plate Girder Bridges General Rules 400 Designs of Plate Girders: 423
• Cost of Shop Labor: 433
• Hoisting Tackle: 447
• ENGINEERING MATERIALS: 487
• Corrosion of Iron and Steel: 523
• Simple and Combined Stress: 531
• Simple Beams Stresses and Deflections: 537
• Stresses in a Transverse Bent: 556
• THE DESIGN OF STEEL DETAILS: 571
• Members in Flexure: 596
• 426: 4
• 538: 18
• 446: 23
• 538: 29

Bibliographic information

• Title: STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS' HANDBOOK DATA FOR THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF STEEL BRIDGES AND BUILDINGS
• Author: MILO S. KETCHUM, C.E.
• Published: 1918