Twentieth century hand-book for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers .. (1905)
Swingle, C. F. [from old catalog], Horstmann, Henry Charles, 1858- [from old catalog], Tousley, Victor Hugo, 1875- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & co. · leaf 36
be area ofsegment (823.89 sq. in.) x pressure (100 lbs.) = 82,389lbs., total stress. Dividing this result by 5,964 lbs.(the capacity of each brace) gives 13.8 braces as thenumber needed. In practice there should be fourteen. Having a T. S. of 38,000 lbs. and using 6 as thefactor of safety, each… … of circles, other than those mentioned in Table I, thefollowing rule is given: Referring to Figure 2 it is desired to find the area oft/-e segment contained within the lines A B C E. Itwill be necessary first to find the area of the sectorbounded by the lines A B C D. This is done by mul-tiplying…
