. The railroad and engineering journal . FIG. 3. 2* i— ■I FIG 4. -^ ^. the stroke 5 ft., the speed 43 revolutions per minute, effective pressure from 60 lbs. to 65 lbs. persquare inch, and tlie pomt of cul-olf about 1 of the ma.\imum load upon the rod was, therefore, from 55,000lbs. to 60,000 lbs. The sectional area of the fracture was5 square inches, so that the stress per square inch, if uni-formly distributed, would not have exceeded from 11,000lbs. to 12,000 lbs. The rod was put in new in March,1883 and a new cotter was fitted in January, 1889. InMarch. 1889. the ro
. The railroad and engineering journal . FIG. 3. 2* i— ■I FIG 4. -^ ^. the stroke 5 ft., the speed 43 revolutions per minute, effective pressure from 60 lbs. to 65 lbs. persquare inch, and tlie pomt of cul-olf about 1 of the ma.\imum load upon the rod was, therefore, from 55,000lbs. to 60,000 lbs. The sectional area of the fracture was5 square inches, so that the stress per square inch, if uni-formly distributed, would not have exceeded from 11,000lbs. to 12,000 lbs. The rod was put in new in March,1883 and a new cotter was fitted in January, 1889. InMarch. 1889. the rod gave way, having been subjected toabout 87,000,000 applications of the stress since it was putin, and to about 3,000,000 since the new cotter was is said that the rod was sound when the new cotter wasput in. Fig. 2 was also the wrought-iron rod of a horizontalCorliss engine ; diameter of cylinder, 36 3 in., stroke ofpiston, 5 ft., revolutions per minute, 40, maximum effectivepressure, 50 lbs. per square inch, point of cut-olf about one-tenth of the strok
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