Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 146
est stress and was toward the adjacent rivet holes. As the defectsprogressed, they penetrated the sheet to a greater distance from theinterface. The result of this combination of developments was a num-ber of areas where the grains of the steel were in intimate contact, butwithout the strength… … Figure 2—A fully developed embrittle me nt defect in metal from oneof the steamers boilers. The lower picture shozvs the rivet holeto rivet hole direction of the disintegration. The top picture is of thesame pieces of metal as the lower, the dark areas in the break illus-trating the development of…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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