Treatise on Iron Ship Building: Its History and Progress as Comprised in a Series of Experimental Researches on the Laws of Strain ... Including the Experimental Results on the Resisting Powers of Armour Plates and Shot at High Velocities |
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... greater value in the art of Shipbuilding than most persons imagine . A single defective joint may endanger the safety of a ship ; how much greater , therefore , must be the danger if the principle throughout be unsound , and the whole ...
... greater value in the art of Shipbuilding than most persons imagine . A single defective joint may endanger the safety of a ship ; how much greater , therefore , must be the danger if the principle throughout be unsound , and the whole ...
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... greater portion has , however , been written from my own practical experience , and , as far as possible , I have endeavoured to avoid prolixity and repetition . Throughout the work I have sought to inculcate sound principles of ...
... greater portion has , however , been written from my own practical experience , and , as far as possible , I have endeavoured to avoid prolixity and repetition . Throughout the work I have sought to inculcate sound principles of ...
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... greater energy and enterprise in this branch of industry is displayed . It is evident that thirty years ' practice in iron ship building must have improved the principle of construction , so as to render vessels of this material safer ...
... greater energy and enterprise in this branch of industry is displayed . It is evident that thirty years ' practice in iron ship building must have improved the principle of construction , so as to render vessels of this material safer ...
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... greater progress in this direction would have been made in the Govern- ment dockyards , but for two reasons — namely , the strong pre- judices engendered against iron in the first instance , and the dangers arising from the effects of ...
... greater progress in this direction would have been made in the Govern- ment dockyards , but for two reasons — namely , the strong pre- judices engendered against iron in the first instance , and the dangers arising from the effects of ...
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... greater than it is at the middle , and , consequently , the material in a transverse section at this part must undergo a downward strain , due to this unbalanced pressure ; in this case , therefore , the top part of the material in the ...
... greater than it is at the middle , and , consequently , the material in a transverse section at this part must undergo a downward strain , due to this unbalanced pressure ; in this case , therefore , the top part of the material in the ...
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angle angle-iron armour plates armour-plates asunder bars beam Bellerophon bolts bottom Breaking Weight calculated cast iron centre Columbiads compared compression construction of iron crack cylindrical depth diameter distance double ductile dynamic resistance effect elongation end rounded English oak equal experiments feet long fired flange foot-pounds force fracture frames fusion hole inches thick increased indentation iron plates iron ship keelson large guns length Lord Warden manufacture material Mean ment metal midships Millwall moment of inertia nearly neutral axis observed ordnance P₁ penetrated perforation pillars planking powers of resistance pressure principle projectiles proportion punch ratio rifled gun rivets rupture sheathing ship building Shoeburyness side Specific Gravity spherical square inch steel shot stern strength TABLE target teak tenacity tensile strain tensile strength timber tion tons per square transverse tube turret upper deck velocity vessels Warrior wood wooden wrought iron
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