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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... can be subjected when afloat . · Effects of Vibratory Action and Alternate Strains of Tension and Com- pression on Wrought Iron Safe working load of Wrought Iron 12 • 13 • 14 • PAGE • 15 Method of ascertaining the Intensity of the a 2.
... can be subjected when afloat . · Effects of Vibratory Action and Alternate Strains of Tension and Com- pression on Wrought Iron Safe working load of Wrought Iron 12 • 13 • 14 • PAGE • 15 Method of ascertaining the Intensity of the a 2.
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... Load is distributed uniformly throughout the Length of a Beam Fixed at one extremity 246 · 246 • When any Number of ... Load has the form of a Trapezoidal Figure 251 • When a Beam is supported by two Props at Equal Distances from its ...
... Load is distributed uniformly throughout the Length of a Beam Fixed at one extremity 246 · 246 • When any Number of ... Load has the form of a Trapezoidal Figure 251 • When a Beam is supported by two Props at Equal Distances from its ...
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... load over it ; hence the unbalanced downward pressure of the load towards the stern produces a tensile strain on the top part of the material in the transverse section at the centre . This strain , no doubt , may be intensified when the ...
... load over it ; hence the unbalanced downward pressure of the load towards the stern produces a tensile strain on the top part of the material in the transverse section at the centre . This strain , no doubt , may be intensified when the ...
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... load in the same direction . This , it will be ob- served , was simply a constant change of tensile force in one direction and compression on the other , whereas that of a ship is subject to both tension and compression on the bottom ...
... load in the same direction . This , it will be ob- served , was simply a constant change of tensile force in one direction and compression on the other , whereas that of a ship is subject to both tension and compression on the bottom ...
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... load equivalent to one - third the weight that would break it . * These results are probably not without interest as regards the construction of iron vessels , as they appear to be conclusive that time is an element in the endurance of ...
... load equivalent to one - third the weight that would break it . * These results are probably not without interest as regards the construction of iron vessels , as they appear to be conclusive that time is an element in the endurance of ...
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