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a crown-bar we therefore have to apply the ordinary rules thatare used for beams. Now the rule for finding the strength of a beam varies according to the way inwhich the beam is loaded. If the load is concentrated at the middle point, the beamwill break quicker than it would if the same load were… … FiG. 2.—^Diagram of a Beam. sheet, in locomotive boilers, is transmitted to the crown-bars by means of the bolts indi-cated in Fig. 1 ; so that these bars, strictly speaking, are like beams that are loaded ata considerable number of points, all equally distant from one another. But it is…
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