Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Preliminary Studies in Bridge Design: Being the First of a Series of Small Volumes, Each Complete in Itself, Dealing With the Design of Ordinary Highway Bridges of Moderate Spans
The most suitable bridge will be one which is designed not only in view of what the engineer finds at the actual crossing, but in view also of the nature of the stream as disclosed by its past history and as disclosing its probable future behaviour.
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