Useful Information for Engineers; Being a Series of Lectures Delivered to the Working Engineers of Yorkshire and Lancashire; Together with a Series of Appendices, Containing the Results of Experimental Inquiries Into the Strength of Materials, the Causes of Boiler Explosions, Etc |
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... Tons in the Direction of the Fibre . Mean breaking Weight in Tons across the Fibre . • 25.77 27.49 22.76 26.03 21.68 18.65 · • Shropshire plates Staffordshire plates 22.82 22.00 · · 19.56 21.01 Mean 22.52 23.04 From this it appears that ...
... Tons in the Direction of the Fibre . Mean breaking Weight in Tons across the Fibre . • 25.77 27.49 22.76 26.03 21.68 18.65 · • Shropshire plates Staffordshire plates 22.82 22.00 · · 19.56 21.01 Mean 22.52 23.04 From this it appears that ...
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... tons to the square inch . Now we have shown by the results of the experiments already adduced , that ordinary boiler plates will not bear more than 23 tons to the square inch , and as nearly one - third of the material is punched out ...
... tons to the square inch . Now we have shown by the results of the experiments already adduced , that ordinary boiler plates will not bear more than 23 tons to the square inch , and as nearly one - third of the material is punched out ...
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... tons ; whereas the plates of the 6 - feet boiler have to sustain a pressure of 162,848 lbs . , or 72 tons , which is quadruple the force to which the boiler only one - half the diameter is exposed ; and the circumferences being only as ...
... tons ; whereas the plates of the 6 - feet boiler have to sustain a pressure of 162,848 lbs . , or 72 tons , which is quadruple the force to which the boiler only one - half the diameter is exposed ; and the circumferences being only as ...
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... tons , which is equal to a strain of 360 lbs . acting longi- tudinally upon every inch of the circumference . Apply the same force to a 6 - feet boiler , with a circumference or line of connexion equal to 226 inches , and we shall find ...
... tons , which is equal to a strain of 360 lbs . acting longi- tudinally upon every inch of the circumference . Apply the same force to a 6 - feet boiler , with a circumference or line of connexion equal to 226 inches , and we shall find ...
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... tons , which a boiler of these dimensions has to sustain . I mention this to show that the statistics of pressure , when worked out , are not only curious in themselves , but instructive as regards a knowledge of the retaining powers of ...
... tons , which a boiler of these dimensions has to sustain . I mention this to show that the statistics of pressure , when worked out , are not only curious in themselves , but instructive as regards a knowledge of the retaining powers of ...
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