| Expansion and contraction in cantilever bridges | 67 | |
| Expansion and contraction, provision for | 23 | |
| Expansion for column feet in trestle-towers | 39 | 90 |
| Expansion for railroad bridges | 149 | |
| Expansion joints | 95 | |
| Expansion pockets | 181 | |
| Expansion rollers | 177 | |
| Experiments on hinged columns | 14 | |
| Experiments on impact | 6 | |
| Explanation of specifications | 5 | |
| Exterior sidewalks | 222 | |
| Extension plates | 176 | |
| Extra loads due to curvature | 151 | |
| Extreme fibre-stress for timber | 156 | |
| Extreme fibre-stress on shafting | 206 | |
| Eye-bars, heads of | 178 | |
| Eye-bars, specifications for | 257 | |
| Factor of ignorance | 7 | |
| Faculty of rapid judgment | 14 | |
| Failures of highway bridges | 130 | |
| Fatigue of metals | 23 | |
| Faults in existing elevated railroads | 95 | |
| Faulty designing of top chords of open-webbed girders | 97 | |
| Faulty detailing | 138 | |
| Faulty intersection of gravity lines in girders of elevated railroads | 96 | |
| Field-riveting in riveted girders | 169 | |
| Field-riveting, reduction to a minimum | 24 | |
| Field-rivets, ease in driving | 24 | |
| Field-rivets, intensities for | 156 | |
| Field-splicing for plate-girder draw-spans | 189 | |
| Filing drawings and other data | 344 | 345 |
| Filing-tubes | 345 | |
| Filling caissons | 292 | |
| Filling of column feet | 27 | |
| Filling recesses in metal-work before painting | 261 | |
| Finding stresses in cantilever bridges | 61 | |
| First principles, establishment of | 12 | |
| First principles of designing | 12 | |
| Firth of Forth Bridge | 67 | |
| Fixed ends for columns of elevated railroads | 180 | |
| Flange splices in plate girders | 167 | |
| Flats for diagonals for riveted girders | 170 | |
| Floating draws | 118 | |
| Floating timber | 299 | |
| Flooring on approaches | 216 | |