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... determination of tension in a single wire can only be hypothetical . Furthermore , it is no easy matter to handle a strand of fifty tons weight , which will exert a strain of forty tons , while being pulled over the towers and put in ...
... determination of tension in a single wire can only be hypothetical . Furthermore , it is no easy matter to handle a strand of fifty tons weight , which will exert a strain of forty tons , while being pulled over the towers and put in ...
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... determined upon by calculation . There are various reasons for making the strand in a more elevated position . It is clear out of the way of the main cable ; the latter does not interfere with regulation , which otherwise would be the ...
... determined upon by calculation . There are various reasons for making the strand in a more elevated position . It is clear out of the way of the main cable ; the latter does not interfere with regulation , which otherwise would be the ...
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... determination of its length . This can be done best and surest by actual trial , in manipulating with the guidewire reversedly as afterwards with the strand . The guidewire is lifted from the saddle into the saddle rollers and both ends ...
... determination of its length . This can be done best and surest by actual trial , in manipulating with the guidewire reversedly as afterwards with the strand . The guidewire is lifted from the saddle into the saddle rollers and both ends ...
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... determined . It will first be necessary to calculate the length of the whole wire in its first position , or , as the curve is symmetrical to the center line , half its length : mg + gp . If the wire were to consist of perfect ...
... determined . It will first be necessary to calculate the length of the whole wire in its first position , or , as the curve is symmetrical to the center line , half its length : mg + gp . If the wire were to consist of perfect ...
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... determined before hand , and in the case of the East River Bridge depends upon the following considerations : The law demands that the lowest point of the bridge in the center of the river shall in no case be less than 135 feet above ...
... determined before hand , and in the case of the East River Bridge depends upon the following considerations : The law demands that the lowest point of the bridge in the center of the river shall in no case be less than 135 feet above ...
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adjusted anchor anchor bars anchorage ASITY attached Berkeley LIBRARY Brooklyn C. E. Illustrated calculation CALIFORN CALIFORNIA LIBRARY cloth connection consists cradle ropes curve deflection distance drum East River Bridge edition engravings equal equation fastened feet final position foot footbridge formula friction GILLMORE Guide Wire guidewire hence high water horizontal tension HYPSOMETRY land cable land span lashing latter length lithographed plates load manufacture masonry Messrs method morocco motion P₁ parabola placed pounds PRACTICAL TREATISE Prof regulated ring river span rollers rolling friction running wire saddle Scale screw shoe side spliced squeezer squeezing standing wire stays steam engine steel rope strain strand stretch suspended SUSPENSION BRIDGES tangent tion tons traveling rope traveling sheave U. S. Navy UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA values vertex W. H. CORFIELD weight wheel wire ropes wooden block wrapping machine wrapping wire Zerah Colburn