index of the reports of the bridge and structures standards committee

INDEX OF THE REPORTS OF THE BRIDGE AND
STRUCTURES STANDARDS COMMITTEE
and structural design employing high tensile steel to the case of mild steel.
Nineteenth Meeting - January, 1939
155/1 Prestressing lattice girder spans, vide appendix ‘C’ of the Bridge Rules
156/2 Standard designs should be prepared for R.C. box culverts and square Arch
openings.
157/3 IRS broad gauge masonry Arched bridge designs applicable to Metre Gauge
requirements.
158/4 Rule 33 of the Bridge Rules, working stresses in wrought iron connotation of the
term early steel.
159/5 Effective length of secondary members as specified in rule, 40 of Bridge Rules.
160/6 To revise rule 30 of the Bridge Rules regarding `Rollers’.
161/7 Wind pressure to be allowed for in the design of loaded highway bridges and
concrete structures having large flat surfaces.
162/8 Research on semi-through plate girders, affected by welding.
163/9 IRS Code of Practice for electric ARC welding of wrought iron and steel
structures for final issue.
164/10 Additional tests to determine the effect of welding on a member under stress.
165/11 Science of soil mechanics applied to the stability of foundations
166/12 The cast iron, rubber and 'Plasco' sleeper pad plates particulars from the National
Society of French Railways relating to rubber pads at bridge girder bearings and
question of adopting a uniform thickness of sleepers on bridges.
167/13 Modified type of expansion bearings for lattice girder bridges.
168/14 Design of abutments and piers for girder bridges, buried pier abutment of `H’
section with arched openings designed to reduce to a minimum any unbalanced
earth pressure.
169/15 Drafts IRS Code of Practice for concrete construction other than reinforced
concrete construction.
170/16 Carrying out fatigue tests on full size all-welded plate girders.
171/17 Impact effect on bridges due to normally balanced locomotives compared with
locomotive of the same type rebalanced for `nil’ reciprocating parts.
Twentieth Meeting - January, 1940
172/1 To revise rule 40 and 59 of the Bridge Rules regarding effective spans, lengths
and web stiffeners.
173/2 Deflection formula in the Bridge Rules.
174/3 Revised Bridge Rules confined to Specification of loads, forces, etc.
175/4 Strengthening members under stress by welding with.
176/5 Applicability of the working stresses to welded structures not subject to impact or
pulsating load.
177/6 Draft IRS Mild Steel Code.
178/7 Additional forms of field tests for reinforced concrete work to be included in the
Reinforced Concrete Code.
179/8 Revision of certain clauses of the pier and abutment Code, i.e. Live load etc.
180/9 Designs of three types of abutments along with quantities of materials.
181/10 Impact tests on all-steel track on bridges.
182/11 Drawings of reinforced concrete box culverts.
Twenty - first Meeting - December, 1940
183/1 Rule 30 of the provisional issue of the Bridge Rules impact allowance on the
existing open web girder bridges.
184/2 Justification for using the secant formula for mild steel struts.