Excerpt from Two Lectures, on the Construction of Boilers, and on Boiler Explosions These proportions of the relative strengths of plates and joints may therefore, in practice, be safely taken as the standard value, in the construction of vessels required to be steam and water tight, and subjected to pressure varying from 10 lbs. To 100 lbs. On the square inch. In the construction of boilers exposed to severe internal pressure, it is desire ble to establish such forms, and so to dispose the material, as to apply the ...
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Excerpt from Two Lectures, on the Construction of Boilers, and on Boiler Explosions These proportions of the relative strengths of plates and joints may therefore, in practice, be safely taken as the standard value, in the construction of vessels required to be steam and water tight, and subjected to pressure varying from 10 lbs. To 100 lbs. On the square inch. In the construction of boilers exposed to severe internal pressure, it is desire ble to establish such forms, and so to dispose the material, as to apply the greatest strength in the direction of the greatest strain and in order to accomplish this. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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