Inside Out Library · Explore

The Locomotive (1867)

Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 87

An illustration from The Locomotive, 1867, leaf 87
hestay-bolts being supposed to be spaced as closelytogether as is common in good practice, we mayconsider that the stresses produced in the outershell by a force of PA— Ta pounds acting on eachunit, will be substantially the same as would beproduced if we cut away the stay bolts altogether,and… … Fig. 4.—The Inner Sheet. the stresses on the outer shell to be due to a uniform steam pressure of P A pounds per square inch. The radius of the outer shell being 7?,, the usual rule for finding thestress in such a shell when the steam pressure is known, gives us *«, = (*-?)*. which is easily seen…

Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions

Internet Archive · Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from The Locomotive

More like this