 | William John Macquorn Rankine - 1870 - 694 Seiten
...periodicals, not generally circuKted, or in oral lectures, > and some are now published for the first time. I have endeavoured, to the best of my knowledge, to mention in their proper i places the authors of recent discoveries and improvements, and to refer to scientific papers which... | |
 | Thomas Claxton Fidler - 1909 - 530 Seiten
...dead load ; while the ensuing chapters deal in a similar manner with bowstring girders, bow-and-chaiu bridges, arched ribs, suspension bridges, and cantilever...papers which have furnished sources of information. TCF WESTMINSTER, October, 1887. PREFATORY NOTE TO THE SECOND EDITION. IT was certainly to be expected... | |
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... materials as they possess, and the most that can be done is to take the experimental facts that have been actually ascertained, and to study their real bearing upon the questions at issue. Throughout the work, I have of course consulted on all occasions... 