An Account of the Construction of the Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges: With a Complete History of Their Progress from the Conception of the Original Idea, to the Conclusion of the Elaborate Experiments which Determined the Exact Form and Mode of Construction Ultimately Adopted |
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angle-iron arrangement asunder axis beams bottom sides breaking weight Britannia Bridge Britannia tubes calculations cast-iron cells cellular top chains Clarke consideration construction Conway tube corrugated top crushing cylindrical tubes DEAR SIR Deflection Deflection Deflection in inches depth diameter EATON HODGKINSON elliptical tubes faithfully following letter form of tube formula fracture girder give Hodgkinson Holyhead Railway inch thick increased joints kinson large tubes last experiment load removed Manchester material Menai Bridge Menai Straits ments middle Millwall model tube nearly neutral axis obtained periments piers platform pontoons powers of resistance present proportions Rectangular tube rendered riveted Robert Stephenson sketch span square inch strain strength structure supports suspended Thickness of plates tion tons top and bottom top side transverse tubular bridges Ultimate deflection upper side vertical Weight in Deflection Weight of shackle Weight of tube whole WILLIAM FAIRBAIRN wrought iron وو