  - Abutments, leaning, 82, 173
- — movements of, 158
- — settlement of, 78
- Adjustment of centre girders, 128
- — of distributing girders, 120
- Angular distortions, 88
- Arches, equilibrium of, 162
- — repair of, 163
- Arrangement of cross girders, 21, 175
- Asphalt, 26
- Ballast, 29
- Bearing pressure on rivets, 47, 51, 57
- Bearings, skew, 4
- Bottom booms, end bays, 18
- Bracing, additional, 117
- — effects of, 34
- — flat bars, 37
- — incomplete, 41
- — sea piers, 42
- Bridge floors, 20
- — repairs, 107
- — surveys, 107
- Bridges, life of, 165
- Breaks in T bars, 16
- Buckling of webs, 16
- Camber, 24, 80
- Cast-iron arches, 80, 145
- — — bridges, 141
- — — columns, 7,144
- — — girders, 141
- — — in sea water, 101
- Centre girders, 122
- Cinder ballast, 29
- Cold-blast iron, 141
- Cooling stresses in cast iron, 145
- Construction depth, 173
- Corrugated sheeting, 29
- Cost of centre girders, 135
- — of maintenance, 168
- Counterbracing, 19
- Cracked bedstones, 3
- — columns, 7
- — web plates, 13, 14, 15, 50
- Cross girder arrangement, 21
- — girders, fixed ends, 22, 118
- — — rusted, 29, 97
- — — weak, 30, 66
- Decay and painting, 96
- — of floor plates, 109
- — of timber, 28, 150
- Deflection, 85
- — due to boom
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- — in road bridges, 60
- — in webs of main girders, 46
- — spacing of, 60, 80
- — stresses in, 56
- Rocking of piers, 8, 83, 159
- Roller bearings, 7
- Rubble masonry, 161-164
- Running load and deflection, 95
- Rusting, instances of, 29, 96
- — of steelwork, 99
- — over sea-water, 98
- Sag in timber bridges, 150
- — of tapes, 172
- Scour under piers, 161
- Sea piers, 42, 102
- Setting bedstones, 3, 129, 176
- Settlements, 76, 157
- Skew bearings, 4
- — bridges, right and left, 173
- — — floors, 25
- Skirting plate, 26
- Slope of girder ends, 92
- Softening of cast-iron in sea-water, 101
- Spacing of rivets, 60, 79
- Spread of abutments, 157
- Spring joints, 23
- Steel trough girders, 68
- — troughing, 70
- Stiffening girders from floor, 12, 40
- — to webs, 16, 38, 185
- Stop piers, 158
- Strength of light top booms, 40
- Strengthening of bridges, 107, 122
- — bridge floors, 118
- — cross girders, 123
- Stress in plated floors, 31
- Study of old bridges, 185
- Tall piers, 42, 159
- Timber bridges, 149
- — floors, 27
- — staging, 177
- Top booms, 18
- Traffic during reconstruction, 177
- Transverse bracing, 34, 117
- Trough floors, 27, 180
- — girders, 50, LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
GREAT WINDMILL STREET, W., AND DUKE STREET, STAMFORD STREET, S.E.
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