Useful Information for Engineers: Containing Experimental Researches on the Collapse of Boiler Flues and the Strength of Materials, and Lectures on Popular Education and Various Subjects Connected with Mechanical Engineering, Iron Shipbuilding, the Properties of Steam, Etc. Second series |
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... load is excessive , or where material is subjected to severe strain . The necessity of these experiments was the more apparent some years since , in the construction of the Britannia and Conway tubular bridges , when fears were ...
... load is excessive , or where material is subjected to severe strain . The necessity of these experiments was the more apparent some years since , in the construction of the Britannia and Conway tubular bridges , when fears were ...
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... load was removed . All the brickwork began to show irregular cracks a con- siderable time before it gave way . The average weight supported by these bricks was 33.5 tons per square foot , equal to a column 583.69 feet high , of such ...
... load was removed . All the brickwork began to show irregular cracks a con- siderable time before it gave way . The average weight supported by these bricks was 33.5 tons per square foot , equal to a column 583.69 feet high , of such ...
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... load , and lays the straw in parallel lines , ready to be bound into sheaves . This machine , like Cour- nier's , has some clever devices , but requires further altera- tion to simplify and make it more effective and complete ...
... load , and lays the straw in parallel lines , ready to be bound into sheaves . This machine , like Cour- nier's , has some clever devices , but requires further altera- tion to simplify and make it more effective and complete ...
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... load by its resistance to compression and extension , along the top and bottom flanches . The true development of girder bridges was not , how- ever , attained , until the experiments in connection with the erection of the Conway and ...
... load by its resistance to compression and extension , along the top and bottom flanches . The true development of girder bridges was not , how- ever , attained , until the experiments in connection with the erection of the Conway and ...
Page 250
... length = 300 feet ; hence the centre - breaking load is equivalent to 400 x 24 x 60 W = = 1920 tons , 300 or in other words , a weight of 960 tons suspended from bow and stern , apart from the vessel's own weight 250 IRON SHIPBUILDING .
... length = 300 feet ; hence the centre - breaking load is equivalent to 400 x 24 x 60 W = = 1920 tons , 300 or in other words , a weight of 960 tons suspended from bow and stern , apart from the vessel's own weight 250 IRON SHIPBUILDING .
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