Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Two Lectures, on the Construction of Boilers, and on Boiler Explosions
These proportions of the relative strengths of plates and joints may therefore, in practice, be safely taken as the standard value, in the construction of vessels required to be steam and water tight, and subjected to pressure varying from 10 lbs. To 100 lbs. On the square inch.
In the construction of boilers exposed to severe internal pressure, it is desire ble to establish such forms, and so to dispose the material, as to apply the greatest strength in the direction of the greatest strain and in order to accomplish this.
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