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FFace walls of retaining walls, designing of, 1037 Faces, plastering of, 1044 Facilities for storage, 1753 Factor of safety for piles, 1010 Failures of bridges, 37, 1539-1547 highway bridges, 1547 Fairbairn, William, 17 Falling span, shock of, 1077 False bottoms for caissons, 994 False Creek, Vancouver, bridges, girders and floors for, 1205 False evidence, 1628 Falsework, 1501, 1769 carrying trains, 1849 cost of, 1359 piles, 1502 reinforced-concrete bridges, 946 washout of, 1201 Falsifying reports, 1628 Falsities, 1155 Falsity in detailing, 1160 Fanning of tracks, 537 Fanning's formula, 1113 Fascines, 1060 cellular, 1061 sink, 1061 Fatigue of metal, 255 Faults in existing elevated railroads, 553-557 Favoritism in specifications, 1554 Fees, 1601 determination of in advance, 1628 inspecting bridges, 1519, 1520 per diem, 1604 promotion, 1607 Ferro-nickel, use of in making nickel steel, 68 Field-glasses, 1461 Field riveting, 276, 1782 Fieldwork, 329 correspondence, 1479 equipment for resident engineer, 1488, 1489 inspection, author's methods of, 1445, 1446, 1447 inspection of materials, 1467 instructions for, 1475 notes, 1478 notice of commencement of, 1768 office of resident engineer, 1768 records, 1475, 1476 reports, 1475, 1476 Fifteenth Street Bridge over the Blue River at Kansas City, 942 Fijeenord Bridge, 700 Files, 1407 calculations, 1408 catalogues, 1411 checking prints, 1410 construction records, 1410 correspondence, 1411 drawings and other papers, 1386 shop drawings, 1402, 1411 tracings, 1396, 1409, 1410 Filler, asphalt, 1835 asphalt pavement, 1812 coal tar, 1834 pitch and stone, 368 sand, 368 Fillers under ends of stringers, 302, 376 Filling, back-, 1864 Filling caisson, 995 column feet, 1840 wells, 996 Final estimates, 1483 Final inspection, 1764 Final quantities, record of, 1485 Finish of reinforced-concrete work, 953 Finish of rolled steel, 1776 Finished concrete, care of, 952 Finished design, checking of, 280 Finishing coat of paint, 766 Finley, James, 21 Fir, Douglas, 52 Fire, danger from, 348, 1205 protection from, 1844-1846 First-class masonry, 1862 First cost, equivalent total, 1182 minimum, 1182 First principles of designing, 267 Firth of Forth Bridge, 593, 594 Fisher, S. B., 725 Fitness, inherent sense of, 268 Fitting of stiffeners, 331 Flange couplings, 1730 Flange sections for stringers, 328 Flanges of cantilever beams, 380-382 Flanges of channels, turned in, 339 Flanges of plate-girders, 421-444 calculation of, 432 cover-plate lengths, 440-444 make-up of sections, 422-430 cover-plates, 422-428 rivet pitches, 432-441 section, determination of, 433 splices, 421 Flaring sides of caissons, 1001 Flash test for asphalt, 1820 Flats, 47 Fleming, R., 304 Floatation method of erection, 34, 1503, 1510 swing span, 684, 1073 Flooding of cofferdams, 979 Floods, magnitude of, 1110 Floor-beams, bending stresses due to deflection of, 206 connections, 378 deck spans, 493 effects of track curvature on, 141 expansion pockets, 377-378 fillers for stringers, 376 shelf angles, 377 skew spans, 485-488 Floor systems, arrangements for various traffic, 364 classes of, 346 design of, 375 highway, steel stringers for, 365 open deck construction, 354 protection against brine drippings, 348 reinforced-concrete bridges, 943 skew spans, 354 solid deck, for truss spans, 354 trough, 349 wooden bridges, 773 Floors, 346 compared with other types of thin floors, 348 timber flooring, 348, 349, 350 track elevation, 348 versus open deck for railway bridges, 347 bascule bridges, 366 basins for, 373 breaking of, 374 brick pavements, 370 cantilevering of, 483 comparison of, 349 countersinking ties for hook bolts, 366 drainage of, 352, 353, 372, 373 expansion plates, 374, 1836 fillers, sand and pitch, 368 fireproofing of railway, 347, 348 gratings for, 373 highway bridges, 364-368, 1634, 1635 nailing shims, 366 noiseless, 348 open deck construction, 347, 348, 354 paved, 1636 paving bases, 368-370 pitch, 366 plank, 365 bases, 369 railway bridges, 346-364, 1633 reinforced-concrete, 350, 351, 370 shallow, 348-351, 353, 354, 493 sidewalks, 372, 1836 solid deck construction, 349-351 stone block pavements, 370 track elevation, 348-351 treated timber, 366 trough, 349 wearing surface, plank floors, 366 wood-block pavement, 368 wood-block pavement, 366-368 on grades, 368 Fluxes for asphalt, 1810 Flying Pendant Lever Bridge, 20 "Footballs," 1597 Footings, columns, calculation of stresses in, 857-861 quantities of materials in, 1325, 1328 pedestal, 1028 reinforced-concrete trestles, depths of, 1324 spread, 1028 square columns, 830 wall, 837 calculation of stresses in, 861, 862 Force of character, 1615 Foreign work, 1583 Foresights, 1464, 1465 Forfeiture of deposit check, 1881 Forged shafting, 337 Forgings, 1202, 1777 Forked ends, 1682 columns, 285 tables for intensities, 310, 323 Form of contract, 1883 Form of proposal, 1880 Formation, geological, 1093 Forms, 1769 cost of, 1359 reinforced-concrete bridges, 947, 949 removal of, 952 Forms of trusses for highway bridges, 1614 Forms of trusses for railway bridges, 1640 Formulae for truss weights, 1281 Fort Leavenworth Bridge repairs, 1531 Fort Smith-Van Buren Lift Bridge, 728 Forth Bridge, 574, 1725 Foundation considerations as affecting layout, 1216 Foundations, 964 blasting of, 983 depths of, 1857 important buildings in the City of Mexico, 970, 971 inspection of, 1448 pedestals, pressures on, 1030 piles, 969, 1860 decay of, 970 testing of, 1518 Founding of pneumatic caissons, 971 Founding piers on a thin crust, 970 Four-angle flanges of plate-girders, 437 Four moments, theorem of, 215 Fowler, Charles Evan, 608, 610 Fox-bolts, 453, 454, 457, 1786 Fox, Herman H., 783, 1387 Fox, S. Waters, 1059 Fracture of steel, 1775 bracing of, 775 limiting heights of, 773 Framing of caisson timber, 989 Frankness, 1629 Fraser River Arch Bridge, 1170 Fraser River (B. C.), bridges, 577, 578, 629, 635 Fraser River Bridge, New Westminster, B. C. erection by floatation, 1503 foundations, 983 piles for, 1017 triangulation, 1463, 1464 Fratt Bridge, Kansas City, 31, 344, 723, 724 chord sections of, 495, 496, 499 description of, 726 illustration of, 727 rocker shoes for, 545 secondary stresses in, 188 shoes for, 532 Fratt, F. W., 724 Free Bridge, St. Louis, , 26, 59, 91 nickel steel for, 91 Freedom from obstruction, 1090 Freezing of dams, 974 Freezing of mortar, 1044 Freezing process, 972 for cofferdams, 977 Freezing weather, concreting in, 951 laying masonry during, 1864 Freight, routing of, 1755 French, A. W., 792 French scientists, characteristics of, 73 Frequency of application of stresses, 275 Friction clutches, 1730 Friction, sliding, 1032 Full-sized eye-bars, tests of, 1775 Full-sized members, tests of, 1776 Functions of parts of structures emphasized, 1154 Functions of the inspecting engineer, 1415 Funicular polygon, 649 Furnishing of materials by Purchaser, 1752 Future enlargement as affecting layout, 1215 Future of bridge building, 35 |