Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 418
Fig. 2. The elementary lap joint is illustrated in Fig. 3. If tensionis applied as indicated in Fig. 4, the plates, in an attempt to alignthemselves with the load, will bend along a line running underthe outer edge of the rivet heads. VJVJ … Fig. 3. Fig. 4. The combined effect of all these conditions, together with theconstant bending of these joints by changes of pressure when inuse, is to impose excessive stresses in the surface of the boilerplate along the line just mentioned. This has produced, in manyboilers, a crack which starts…
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