Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 105
per square inch. The joint is double-riveted, the rivet-holes being \^ in diam-eter, and the pitch Sj^g. It is required to find the safe working pressure, using a factorof safety of 5. Solution: To find the bursting pressure of a jointless shell of these proportions,we must multiply the tensile… … Fig. 5. which is the bursting pressure of a jointlessshell of the proposed dimensions. To findthe actual bursting pressure of the boiler, * we must multiply 687 by the effective efficiency of the diagonal joints, which isto be found by the foregoing rule. The ^ /■f efficiency of an ordinary…
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