A new theory of the suspension system with stiffening truss

✍ Scribed by A.Jay DuBois

• Book ID: 103088603
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1882
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 467 KB
• Volume: 113
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(82)90152-1

✦ Synopsis

If we take moments about the centre of the span, we have fbr the strain in either flange, since the moment at the centre is _m l~

Strain --m l" 6h From (III), then,

We have then 2 ----

Fz2

3¢2F /,

Equating ( 22)and ( 21), we obtain for the best ratio of height of truss to versine of cable, h _ 2 (v)