Crushing Strength Of Various Materials, Deduced From Experiments In England And America
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This section is from the book "The English And American Mechanic", by B. Frank Van Cleve. Also available from Amazon: The English And American Mechanic.
Crushing Strength Of Various Materials, Deduced From Experiments In England And America
Reduced to a uniform Measure of One Square Inch.________
FIGURES AND MATERIAL. | Crushing Weight. |
Prisms. CAST IRON. | Lbs. |
American, gun-metal....................... | 174803 |
" mean.................... | 129000 |
English, Low Moor, No. 1- | 62450 |
" " No. 2...... | 92330 |
Clyde, No. 3...... | 106039 |
" Stirling, mean of all | 122395 |
" " extreme............ | 134400 |
American................... | 127720 |
" mean.............................. | 83500 |
English................. | 65200 |
40000 | |
VARIOUS METALS. | |
Fine brass............................... | 104800 |
Cast copper......................... | 117000 |
Cast steel......................... | 295000 |
Cast tin................................. | 15500 |
Lead........................ | 7730 |
Ash............................ | 6663 |
Beech............................ | 6963 |
Birch....................... | 7969 |
Box............................ | 10513 |
Cedar, red....................... | 5968 |
Chestnut................................. | 6860 |
Elm............................. | 6831 |
Hickory, white............................. | 8925 |
Locust.................................. | 9113 |
Mahogany, Spanish.................... | 8198 |
Maple........................... | 8150 |
Oak, American white............. | 6100 |
" Canadian white................. | 5982 |
" " live................ | 6850 |
" English | 9500 |
6484 | |
Pine, pitch..................... | 8947 |
" white......................... | 6775 |
" yellow.................. | 8200 |
Spruce, white...................... | 5950 |
Sycamore........................... | 7082 |
Teak.................................... | 12100 |
Walnut................................... | 6645 |
Brick, hard..................... | 2000 |
4368 | |
" common.............. | 4000 |
800 |
FIGURES AND MATERIAL. | Crushing Weight. |
Lbs. | |
Clay, fine, baked | 175 |
" " rolled and baked..... | 400 |
Common brick masonry......... | 800 |
500 | |
Crown glass................ | 81000 |
Cralgleltn Limestone, Eng'h | 7800 |
2186 | |
Aberdeen granite, | 8400 |
10363 | |
Arbroath " | 7884 |
Caithness " | 6493 |
Limestone " | 8086 |
Portland | 15583 |
4570 | |
Portland cement " | 15000 |
" mean " | 8200 |
Portland oolite " | 3850 |
Fire-brick, Stourbridge.......... | 1717 |
Freestone, Bellville................ | 3522 |
" Caen................. | 1088 |
" Connecticut............ | 8818 |
" Dorchester..................... | 3069 |
Little Falls............. | 2991 |
Gneiss........................ | 19600 |
Granite, Patapsco................... | 5340 |
" Quincy...................... | 15300 |
Marble, Baltimore, large......... | 8057 |
" " small......... | 18061 |
" East Chester*............ | 28817 |
" Hastings, N. Y............ | 18941 |
" Italian.......................... | 12624 |
" Lee, Mass................ | 22702 |
" Montgomery co., Pa... | 8950 |
" Stockbridget................. | 10382 |
" Symington, large......... | 11156 |
" " fine crystal.................. | 18248 |
" " strata horizontal | 10124 |
" " strata vertical..... | 9324 |
Mortar, good................. | 240 |
" common................ | 120 |
Normandy Caen............... | 1543 |
Portland cement, 1; sand, 1..... | 1280 |
Roman " ......... | 342 |
Sandstone, Adelaide................... | 2800 |
" AcquiaCreek‡...... | 6890 |
" Seneca§.................. | 10762 |
Stock brick....................... | 2177 |
Sydney"....................... | 2228 |
* Same as that of the General Post Office. Washington. † Same as that of the City Hall. New York.
‡ Same as that of the Capitol, Treasury Department, and Patent Office, Washington, D. C. §Same as that of the Smithsonian Institute. || Same as that of the National Washington Monument.
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