Illustrations of David Kirkaldy's system of mechanical testing as originated and carried on by him during a quarter of a century:

comprising a large selection of tabulated results, shewing the strength and other properties of materials used in construction, with explanatory text, and historical sketch (Google eBook)

William George Kirkaldy

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S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1891 - Strength of materials - 302 pages

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William George Kirkaldy
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99 Southwark Street amount annealed appear axles behaviour BENDING STRESS breaking strain Bridge Bronze cast iron cent column Committee contraction of area curves DEFLECTION diagrams ductility effects Elastic stress end fractured engineer English Oak EXPERIMENTS TO ASCERTAIN Fagersta Fibrous flange girders given Hammersmith Bridge Hardest Henry Law holes inches diameter interest joists Kirkaldy's length London Lowest machine manufacturers material Mean metal Napier & Sons number of tests o-oo obtained ooo ooo original pieces PULLING STRESS Punched Punjaub Ratio received recorded Report RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS riveted-joints rolled S.E. DAVID KIRKALDY samples sent shape sheared Shearing Stress Silky Softest SPECIFIC GRAVITY specifications SPECIMENS CUT square inch Steel Bars Steel Plates strands broke strength of materials Stress per square struts TENSILE STRENGTH testing-machine thickness THRUSTING STRESS tons Total tyres ultimate stress uncracked various W. J. Kingsbury wire Wrought Iron

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Title	Illustrations of David Kirkaldy's system of mechanical testing as originated and carried on by him during a quarter of a century: comprising a large selection of tabulated results, shewing the strength and other properties of materials used in construction, with explanatory text, and historical ...
Author	William George Kirkaldy
Publisher	S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1891
Original from	Oxford University
Digitized	2 Dec 2008
Length	302 pages

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