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The mechanical engineering of power plants (1897)

Hutton, Frederick Remsen, 1853- [from old catalog] · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 440

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Fig. 334. THE STKAM-BOILER. GENERAL CONSTRUCTION. 403 may be either chain or stagger as respects the arrangementof the rivets. In chain-riveting the rivets are behind eachother in the two rows. The objection to the lap-joint is thetendency to flex the plates at the passage from two thick- … FiG. 336. nesses to one when the pull on each plate seeks to opposeitself to that exerted in the line of the other (Fig. 323). Thetreble-riveted joint (Fig. 334) gives a longer lap and moreplate area and more rivet-shearing area, as well as a stiffer

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