final-report-of-the-advisory-committee-on-falsework-bragg-report - Flipbook - Page 140
Index
Advisory Committee on Falsework, 7-8, 63, 87
membership, 4
papers considered by, 132-7
terms of reference, 3
Apathy, 85
Apprentices' training, 83--4
Architect, 73--4, 75
choice of, 66
engineer and, 9, 40, 68-9, 73, 75, 81
falsework training, 9, 81, 82
liabilities of, 75-6
Arroyo Seco Bridge collapse, 107-10
Association of Consulting Engineers, 74
Aston University, 59, 63
Australia, collapses in, 13, 24, 71, 97-100
Authorities, constraints by, 39
Base (see also Foundations)
materials, 28
plates, adjustable, 57
supports, 28, 35
displacement of, 28
Beams
composite, 58
pre-cast, 71
rolled steel, 30, 57, 117
shutter, discontinuous, 56
telescopic, 29
top, support of, 28-30
universal, 30, 59, 115
Bearing stresses, 56
Bearing surfaces, 28--9, 35, 117, 122, 123, 127
Bircham Newton Training Centre, 8, 82, 84
"Bird cages", 52, 103--4
Birling Road Overbridge collapse, 13, 103--7
Box tying, 55
Bracing, 35, 49, 51-4
absent, 120-9 passim
diagonal, 55, 127
foot ties, 53
inadequate, 102, 110, 115-16, 119-21 passim
Bridges, 39
collapses of, 93-117, 120, 125, 127-8
curved, 51
longitudinal forces, 55
numbers under construction, 12
piers, 39, 55, 125
procedure and checks on, 73
research into loading, 63
skew spans, 29, 81, 105
soffits, 55
over valleys, 7, 54
British Railways, 40, 74, 81
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