 | Royal Institution of Naval Architects - Naval architecture - 1897 - 458 pages
...point to the necessity for the use of some more reliable material for this all important purpose. In my opinion, if propeller shafts were made of nickel steel...question of failures would seldom or never be raised, from the reason I have given, viz., that should a crack appear at all in nickel steel it will not develop... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - Building materials - 1903 - 828 pages
...the breaking of propeller shafts due to the development of some flaw in the shaft. In Mr. Beardmore's opinion, if propeller shafts were made of nickel steel...question of failures would seldom or never be raised, from the reason that should a crack appear at all in nickel steel it will not develop as it would in... | |
 | Robert H. Thurston - Building materials - 1906 - 808 pages
...the breaking of propeller shafts due to the development of some flaw in the shaft. In Mr. Beardmore's opinion, if propeller shafts were made of nickel steel...question of failures would seldom or never be raised, from the reason that should a crack appear at all in nickel steel it will not develop as it would in... | |
 | Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen - Metallurgy - 1910 - 572 pages
...tons of nickel in the form of nickel steel, and it has been stated by a competent authority that " if propeller shafts were made of nickel steel the...question of failures would seldom or never be raised." An attempt to deal adequately with the application of nickel would lead far beyond the scope of the... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1899 - 540 pages
...tons of nickel in the form of nickel steel, and it has been stated by a competent authority that " if propeller shafts were made of nickel steel the...question of failures would seldom or never be raised." An attempt to deal adequately with the application of nickel would lead far beyond the scope of the... | |
 | Railroad engineering - 1897 - 504 pages
...these experiments on the use of nickel steel for propellers would be evident to any marine engineer. In his opinion, if propeller shafts were made of nickel steel, the question of failure would seldom arise, because a crack in nickel steel would not develop as it would in ordinary... | |
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... that should a crack appear at all in nickel steel it will not develop as it would in ordinary carbon steel. This remark applies, of course, with equal force to railroad axles. 