Illustrations of David Kirkaldy's System of Mechanical Testing as Originated and Carried on by Him During a Quarter Century: Comprising a Large Selection of Tabulated Results, Showing the Strength and Other Properties of Materials Used in Construction, with Explanatory Text, and Historical Sketch |
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99 SOUTHWARK STREET amount annealed Area at Fracture axles Barlow behaviour Berkley bolts Bridge Bronze buckling cast iron cent centre column contraction of area crucible steel DEFLECTION Delhi Railway Messrs diagrams ductility effects Elastic stress end fractured engineer English Oak EUSTON STATION EXPERIMENTS TO ASCERTAIN Fagersta Fibrous flange girders given Hammersmith Bridge HENRY LAW inch diameter interest joists Kirkaldy's length machine manufacturers material Mean metal Napier & Sons number of tests obtained original Plate at rivet PULLING STRESS Punched Punjaub received recorded Report RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS rivet holes Riveted-Joints Rivets sheared Rolled S.E. DAVID KIRKALDY samples sent Silky Softest specifications SPECIMENS CUT square inch Steel Bars strands broke strength of materials STRESS IN POUNDS Stress per square TENSILE STRENGTH testing-machine thickness Thomas Bouch THRUSTING STRESS tons tyres Ultimate Stress uncracked Unwin various W. J. Kingsbury wire WMARK LONDON Wrought Iron