 The contingency of the sudden application of a moving load is provided for by the factor of safety, which expresses the ratio of the proof load to the working load (Article 247). The action of the rolling load to which a railway bridge is subjected is...  A Manual of Civil Engineering - Page 280by William John Macquorn Rankine - 1872 - 784 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William John Macquorn Rankine - Mechanical engineering - 1870 - 694 pages
...(Article 247). The action of the rolling load to which a railway bridge is subjected is intermediate between that of an absolutely sudden load and a perfectly...of the Commissioners on the Application of Iron to Eailway Structures. The practical conclusion to be drawn from them is, that a moving load requires... | |
 | William John Macquorn Rankine - Mechanical engineering - 1872 - 714 pages
...(Article 247). The action of the rolling load to which a railway bridge is subjected is intermediate between that of an absolutely sudden load and a perfectly...the Application of Iron to Railway Structures. The practical conclusion to be drawn from them is, that a moving load requires a larger factor of safety... | |
 | William John Macquorn Rankine - Mechanical engineering - 1877 - 716 pages
...which a railway bridge is subjected is intermediate between that of an absolutely sudden load arid a perfectly gradual load. It has been investigated...the Application of Iron to Railway Structures. The practical conclusion to be drawn from them is, that a moving load requires a larger factor of safety... | |
 | Gaetano Lanza - Engineering - 1889 - 770 pages
...who wishes to pursue the subject further will do well to consult : — i°. Eaton Hodgkinson : (a) Report of the Commissioners on the Application of Iron to Railway Structures. (6) London Philosophical Transactions. 1840. (f) Experimental Researches on the Strength and other... | |
 | William John Macquorn Rankine - Mechanical engineering - 1888 - 784 pages
...(Article 247). The action of the rolling load to which a railway bridge ia subjected is intermediate between that of an absolutely sudden load and a perfectly..."Stokes, and experimentally by Captain Galton, and the rvsults are given in the Report of the Commissioners on the Application of Iron to Railway Structures.... | |
 | Mansfield Merriman - Mechanics, Applied - 1895 - 412 pages
...PlERSON'S History of the Elasticity and Strength of Materials {3 volumes, 1886-1892). In 1849 was published the ' Report of the Commissioners on the Application of Iron to Railway Structures,' which may be regarded as the landmark of the beginning of modern methods of testing. It contains the... | |
 | Mansfield Merriman - Mechanics, Applied - 1895 - 404 pages
...This very complex question cannot here be investigated, but the student is referred to Appendix B of the Report of the Commissioners on the Application of Iron to Railway Purposes (London, 1849) for an excellent general discussion. It may also be noted that the above formula... | |
 | William John Macquorn Rankine - Mechanical engineering - 1898 - 772 pages
...(Article 247). The action of the rolling load to which a railway bridge is subjected is intermediate between that of an absolutely sudden load and a perfectly gradual load. It has been investigated both mathematically and experimentally. The practical conclusion to be drawn is, that a moving load... | |
 | Sir James Alfred Ewing, James Alfred Ewing - Strength of materials - 1899 - 268 pages
...to the existence of initial internal stress in the metal, produced by unequally rapid cooling in * Report of the Commissioners on the Application of Iron to Railway Structures, 1849. different portions of the cast bar. A second loading of the same piece showed a much closer approach... | |
 | William John Macquorn Rankine - Mechanical engineering - 1904 - 708 pages
...(Article 247). The action of the rolling load to which a railway bridge is subjected is intermediate between that of an absolutely sudden load and a perfectly gradual load. It lias been investigated both mathematically and experimentally. The practical conclusion to be drawn... | |
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