 | William Davis Haskoll - Railroads - 1864 - 214 pages
...from 1J inch round bars. Rolled bars, 1 inch round. Do. do. Do. -J inch round. Do. f inch round. " A low breaking strain may be due to looseness and...softness, although very close and fine in quality. " The contraction of area at fracture, previously overlooked, forms an essential element in estimating... | |
 | Bindon Blood Stoney - Girders - 1869 - 370 pages
...being very hard and unyielding. 3. A few breaking strain may b.; due to looseness and coarseness of the texture, or to extreme softness, although very...contraction of area at fracture, previously overlooked, forma an essential element in estimating the quality of specimens. 5. The respective merits of various... | |
 | Thomas Tredgold - Bridges - 1871 - 640 pages
...moderately soft ; or simply to its being very hard and unyielding. A low breaking strain, on the other hand, may be due to looseness and coarseness in the texture...softness, although very close and fine in quality. 427. Fibrous iron elongates considerably under heavy strains; and when it breaks, the fractured part... | |
 | Dennis Hart Mahan - Civil engineering - 1873 - 560 pages
...superior quality, dense, fine, and moderately soft, or simply to its being very hard and unyielding. 3. A low breaking strain may be due to looseness and...texture, or to extreme softness, although very close aiid fine in quality. 4. The contraction of area at fracture, previously overlooked, forms an essential... | |
 | Julius George Medley - 1873 - 942 pages
...may be here quoted. 1. The breaking; strain does not indicate the quality, as hitherto assumed. 2. The contraction of area at fracture, previously overlooked,...essential element in estimating the quality of specimens (of both Iron and Steel). 3. Iron is injured by being brought to a white or welding heat, if not at... | |
 | Dennis Hart Mahan - Civil engineering - 1875 - 636 pages
...superior quality, dense, fine, and moderately soft, or simply to its being very hard and unyielding. 3. A low breaking strain may be due to looseness and...very close and fine in quality. . 4. The contraction or area at fracture, previously overlooked, forms an essential element in estimating the quality of... | |
 | Percy Gaillemard L. Smith - 1879 - 548 pages
...breaking strain does not indicate the quality as hitherto assumed. "2. A high breaking strain may be clue to the iron being of superior quality, dense, fine,...coarseness in the texture, or to extreme softness, though very close and fine in quality. " 4. The contraction of area at fracture, previously overlooked,... | |
 | William Miller Barr - 1880 - 494 pages
...and moderately soft, or simply to its being very hard and unyielding. "3. Alow breaking strain maybe due to looseness and coarseness in the texture or to extreme softness, though very close and fine in quality. PLATE IRON. SHEET IRON KIND OP IRON POSITION OF COLD. HOT. TESTED.... | |
 | James Stephen Jeans - Steel - 1880 - 962 pages
...superior quality, dense, fine, and moderately soft, or simply to its being very hard and unyielding. A low breaking strain may be due to looseness and...coarseness in the texture, or to extreme softness, although accompanied by very close and fine quality. The contraction of area at fracture, previously overlooked,... | |
 | James Stephen Jeans - Steel - 1880 - 966 pages
...coarseness in the texture, or to extreme softness, although accompanied by very close and fine quality. The contraction of area at fracture, previously overlooked,...essential element in estimating the quality of specimens. The respective merits of various specimens can be correctly ascertained by comparing the breaking strain... | |
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The breaking strain does not indicate the quality, as hitherto assumed. 2. A high breaking strain may be due to the iron being of superior quality, dense, fine, and moderately soft, or simply to its being very hard and unyielding. 
