The Design of Steam Boilers and Pressure Vessels

Abstract

THIS book is a comprehensive treatise on the design of steam boilers and other vessels subjected to internal fluid pressure. The subject naturally divides itself into questions of strength, of providing dimensions suitable for the thermal operations involved, and the production of working drawings embodying the results of the calculations. The authors have endeavoured to harmonise the rational methods of both theory and practice; wherever possible results have been found by rational rather than empirical methods. The design of a steam boiler, so far as strength is concerned, is a matter in which the designer has but small latitude. In this country he has generally to make the results of his calculations conform to the rules of the Board of Trade, or of Lloyd's Committee, or of both. Hence the book will be of greater service to the student than to the practical designer, although there is much in it which will appeal to the latter also.

The Design of Steam Boilers and Pressure Vessels.

By Prof. G. B. Haven Prof. G. W. Swett. Pp. vii + 416.(New York: J. Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1915.) Price 12s. 6d. net.