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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 June 2016
In a previous paper it was assumed that the cross-girders are freely supported at their ends. In practice these ends can often be considered as clamped (“ built-in ”), for example, a span of continuous bottom-girders of a ship between two transverse bulkheads.
In the following discussion it is assumed that the ends of the cross-girders are clamped, conditions at the ends of the main beams remaining arbitrary, as in Ref. 1.