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The Locomotive (1867)

Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 179

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r boiler shells. Thetotal tangential stress in the material of any cylinder is not evenly distributedthroughout the thickness t of the material, but gradually diminishes fromthe inner skin of the plate toward the outer skin, so that the maximum stressoccurs in the inner skin of the metal.… … Fig. 2. Fig. namely: For the sake of simplicity we might use the usual boiler shell formula,P> R but this would be at the sacrifice of accuracy, since it produces a result that is considerably less for thick walledstructures of small diameter than Lames formula, which is theoretically…

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