A Text Book On Roofs And Bridges Stresses In Simple Trusses

Author : Mansfield Merriman
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365289210
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book A Text Book on Roofs and Bridges, Vol. 1 written by Mansfield Merriman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Text Book on Roofs and Bridges, Vol. 1: Stresses in Simple Trusses The course of instruction in roofs and bridges given to students of civil engineering in Lehigh University consists of four parts first, the computation of stresses in roof trusses and in all the common styles of simple bridge trusses; second, the analysis of stresses by graphic methods; third, the design of a bridge, which includes the proportioning of details and the preparation of working drawings; and fourth, the discussion of cantilever, suspension, continuous and arched bridges. In the following pages the first part of this course is presented. The plan adopted in arranging this text-book on the computa tion of stresses is similar to that followed in the author's Mechanics of Materials. The principles and methods are first established, and then numerous numerical examples are fully worked out to illustrate them and their application to different forms of trusses, while a number of problems are stated as exercises for the student. As no work is so valuable to a student as that done by himself, each alternate leaf throughout the text has been left blank, so that his solutions of these problems may be recorded in permanent form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.