Abstract
A discussion of an article with the aforementioned title, published in this journal (Vol. 10, No. 2, March/April 2005), is presented. The author discusses his experience with rivet failures in railway bridges. He comments that although current design practices have reduced the frequency of failures in stringer-to-floorbeam connections that are due to continuity, most railway truss spans in North America were erected before these practices became common. The author has frequently observed another failure mechanism for rivets in stringer-to-floorbeam connections in railway truss spans. The apparent cause of these failures was elongation of the floor system resulting from participation with the lower chord in the overall elongation of the bottom of the truss because of live-load deflection.
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