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Excerpt from On the Theory and Calculation of Continuous Bridges
The following pages are divided into three chapters. The first presents by way of intro duction some of the elementary principles of continuous girders, and the fundamental ideas relating to the calculation of strains. The sec ond gives the theory of flexure as applied to the continuous miss of constant cross section, and exhibits it in formulae (i) to (vi), ready for application to any particular case and the third gives an example of the computation of strains in a continuous truss of five unequal spans, with some useful hints concerning the practical building of such bridges.
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