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Excerpt from Design of Plate Girders In order to develop the designs consistently, the specifications Of the New York, New Haven Hartford Railroad are used as a basis and then discussed in detail as the design is proceeded with. The chapter on box girders has been worked out on similar lines, using a fixed load and without using any specifications. The material on deections, contributed by Prof. W. H. Lawrence Of the Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, has never before been printed for general distribution. 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.