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THIS book is intended to be of service in the drawing office to students taking courses in civil engineering who have acquired a knowledge of strength of materials, theory of structures, etc. The volume contains tw.elve designs completely worked out with the necessary calculations and drawings. These include a steel frame building with grillage foundations, steel dock gates, two steel roof principals, one of which is a two-hinged braced arch, five bridge designs, including both steel and reinforced concrete, a masonry dam and an earthen dam. These designs have been carefully worked out and will be useful to the student in showing how principles are applied in practice; also by modifying specified dimensions the illustrated designs may be used as models for his own designs.
Civil Engineering Design.
By Arthur A. Fordham. Pp. xi + 212 (45 plates). (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1931.) 21s. net.
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Engineering. Nature 128, 962 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128962c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/128962c0