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Selected Papers.! PIERS. ESLISG ON RAILWAY-BRIDGE 219 SECT. 11.-OTHER SELECTED (Paper No. 3592.) PAPERS. Problem Relatingto Railway-bridge Piers of Masonry or Brickwork." By FREDERICK KARL ESLINQ. INthe design of railway-bridge piers of masonry or brickwork, a puzzling problem is met with when the horizontal forces (due to application of the brake, till sliding takes place, to a train exposed to wind-pressure), acting at an angle to each other, cause the centre of pressure of the combined vertical and horizontal forces t o fall beyond a certain distsnce from the centre of gravity of the horizontal section of the pier...