Railway Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from Railway Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 1: A Practical Treatise by Engineering ExpertsTests Generally Employed. - The tests applied to these materials consist, in the great majority of cases, Of tensile tests supplemented by some rough bending tests, and, in the case Of, say, boiler plates, drifting tests, also transverse tests for cast iron, and bulging, Hanging, and ¿attening tests for tubes. In a great majority Of cases the tensile tests, when properly made, give a fair indication of the value of the various materials used in locomotive construction, but they are not to be entirely depended upon.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.