Railway and Locomotive Engineering . comotives. The accompanying illustration showsone of twelve sets of vanadium cast-steelframes made liv the Union Coni- IUOlEKTlliS.(Mininumi). (.. A • I! , lbs. per si|. . Tensile .Slrenglh, lbs. per sq. in. . Klongalioii in 2 in., per JO 15 Keduelion of Area, per M 2_ specilieii It is possible to obtain clastic limits of?10,000 to 45,000 lbs. per sq. in. witli Grade15, connnonly known as high or 40 car-bon cast-steel frames; but these highelastic limits are a
Railway and Locomotive Engineering . comotives. The accompanying illustration showsone of twelve sets of vanadium cast-steelframes made liv the Union Coni- IUOlEKTlliS.(Mininumi). (.. A • I! , lbs. per si|. . Tensile .Slrenglh, lbs. per sq. in. . Klongalioii in 2 in., per JO 15 Keduelion of Area, per M 2_ specilieii It is possible to obtain clastic limits of?10,000 to 45,000 lbs. per sq. in. witli Grade15, connnonly known as high or 40 car-bon cast-steel frames; but these highelastic limits are accompanied by lowductility, generally the minimum means greatly lessened resistance toshocks and repeated stresses and in-creased liability to failure through the otlier hand, tlie high elastic limitsassociated with high ductility of vana-dium frames mean greatly increased re-^islallce to fatigue or what is commonlyknown as crystallization, and much longerservice. Thi \cw rk. Ontario & Western has. \ ,\.\.\iiif\t CAST sii;i:r. i-r.\me fdr xi:\v uK. ().\r.\Rin ,>^ u i:.sTi:K.\, .inj iwi: :;. Steel CiMini. Makers. cent, by the admixture of vanadium, pany for heavy Santa Fe type locomotives liad over four years experience withDrills made from some of this steel con- recently built for the New York, Ontario vanadium cast-steel frames which hastaining three-tenths of one per cent, of & Western. These are the largest and proved to the mechanical otbcials the su-vanadium proved to be 25 per cent, better heaviest cast-steel frames of whicli the periority of this type of frame and ledthan a 3 per cent, tungsten tool steel, makers have record. They are 6 in. wide, to the specification of tlie particularAccording to eminent authorities vana- 41 ft. 7 in. lon.«-, and each casting weighs frames recently ordere< is the element which, together with 13,250 lbs. It may he added that special tests re-carbon, acts with the greatest in
Size: 2670px × 936px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookpublishernewyork, bookyear19
