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Excerpt from General Specifications for Steel Railroad Bridges and Structures: With a Section Making Them Applicable to Highway Bridges and Buildings; Prepared Under the Direction of Virgil G. Bogue, Civil Engineer The new uniform live load, given in Paragraph 37, which may be substituted for the Cooper concentrated loadings, is presented for the use of engineers who prefer to use uniform loads, rather than wheel loads, in their computations. It will give somewhat greater moments for spans up to about one hundred and fifty feet in length, and slightly smaller moments for spans over four hun dred feet in length, which is considered an advantage. 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.