Plating and Boiler-making: A Practical Handbook for Workshop Operations Including an Appendix of Tables

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C. Lockwood and Son, 1920 - 374 pages
 

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Page 289 - Multiply the sum of the two parallel sides by the perpendicular distance between them, and half the product will be the area.
Page 51 - ... 82° Fahrenheit, must stand bending in a press to a curve of which the inner radius is one and a half times the thickness of the steel tested. The strips are all to be cut in a planing machine, and to have the sharp edges taken off.
Page 59 - Lloyd's rules for steel boilers state that the minimum tenacity of the material should be 26 tons per square inch, with an elongation of not less than 20 per cent, in a length of 8 inches.
Page 51 - Strips cut lengthwise or crosswise of the plate to have an ultimate tensile strength of not less than 26 and not exceeding 30 tons per square inch of section, with an elongation of 20 per cent in a length of 8 inches. * See " Manual of the Steam-engine,
Page 52 - ... before fracture. Strips cut from the plate, angle, or bulb steel, to be heated to a low cherry red, and cooled in water of 82° F., must stand bending double round a curve of which the diameter is not more than three times the thickness of the plate tested. UNDERWRITERS.
Page 51 - One plate, beam, or angle, &c., is to be taken for testing from every invoice, provided the number of plates, beams, or angles, &c., does not, exceed fifty. If above that number, one for every additional fifty or portion of fifty. Steel may be received or rejected without a trial of every thickness on the invoice. The pieces of plate, beam, or angle, &c...

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