Lexicographical Neighbors of Superelevating
Literary usage of Superelevating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bridge Engineering by John Alexander Low Waddell (1916)
"By superelevating the outer rail the centre of gravity of the train is shifted
toward the centre of the curve, thus producing a negative moment to ..."
2. A Text Book of the Principles of Physics by Alfred Daniell (1895)
"On this principle, skaters, circus-riders, etc., rounding a curve, incline inwards:
and the permanent way of a railway is adjusted by superelevating the ..."
3. A Text Book of the Principles of Physics by Alfred Daniell (1894)
"On this principle, skaters, circus-riders, etc., rounding a curve, incline inwards:
and the permanent way of a railway is adjusted by superelevating the ..."
4. Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915 (1916)
"The tapers furnish a means of superelevating gradually, easing the shock of the
rolling stock in passing from tangents to curves; the effective amount of ..."
5. The Design of Railway Location: A Study of the Physical and Economic by Clement Clarence Williams (1917)
"This is called superelevating, elevating, or canting the track. Superelevation does
not guide a truck around a curve, as it is sometimes supposed, ..."
6. Deformations of Railroad Tracks and the Means for Remedying Them by G. Cuénot (1907)
"... superelevating them and removing the plates from the neighboring pieces, or
again by withdrawing the latter from the track; in this manner it was ..."
7. Deformations of Railroad Tracks and the Means for Remedying Them by G. Cuénot (1907)
"They were isolated from the neighboring ties, either by superelevating them and
removing the plates from the neighboring pieces, or again by withdrawing the ..."
8. The Practice of Railway Surveying and Permanent Way Work by Samuel Wright Perrott, F. E. G. Badger (1920)
"To make this possible it is necessary to start gradually superelevating some
distance back along the straight called the "run off. ..."
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