Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 44
to a direct longitudinal tensilestress, whose magnitude depends upon the pressure of the steam within theboiler, and also upon the way in which the staybolts are spaced in the sheets.This part of the load will not be subject to any sensible variation, so long as thepressure remains constant. In… … « PITCH-- Fig. i. — The Whitworth Thread. the bolt is secured. These relative motions of the sheets are due in part to thefact that the inner and outer sheets are ordinarily at somewhat different tem-peratures, so that there is a differential expansion or contraction, every time theboiler is heated…
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