Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Principles of Structural Design, Vol. 2
The second part of this treatise has been compiled for the use of officers, Royal Engineers, completing the full course of instruction at the School of Military Engineering. In the former part of the treatise, among other subjects, the consideration of influences brought to bear on supported beams and cantilevers has been considered. In this the more complicated questions of fixed and continuous beams, and the effect of rolling loads are first investigated, after which the application of all the foregoing principles to different types of bridges is discussed and exemplified. In addition to bridges, the subjects of retaining walls, reservoir dams and sea defences are dealt with. This completes the list of those problems in structural engineering which, as a rule, engineers of the army of Great Britain may have to solve. No apology need be offered for devoting a considerable portion of this work to the construction of bridges, for it will be universally admitted to be of special importance to engineers of the British army. 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.
