It is for this reason that the compression pressure of the ordinary automobile motor is kept in the neighborhood of 70 pounds per square inch.
The average compression pressure of a two- or four-cycle engine of the ordinary type, is from 60 to 70 pounds per square inch.
In its upward travel, the piston compresses this air to a pressure approximating 500 pounds per square inch.
The projecting surface of the crank-pin should, as a rule, be calculated for a pressure of 1,400 pounds per square inch.
K: Modulus of elasticity, in thousands of pounds per square inch.
I: Fiber stress at elastic limit, in pounds per square inch.
Pumping water by air pressure requires a large air container capable of resisting a pressure of 100 pounds per square inch.
On freezing, water expands about one-tenth of its volume and exerts the enormous pressure of over 2,000 pounds per square inch.
This is compressed to a pressure of about 500 pounds per square inch, and sufficient heat is produced by this compression to explode a hydrocarbon mixture.
The richer mixture of gasoline and air not only burns quicker but produces the most heat and the most effective pressure in pounds per square inch of piston top area.
That is, 104 pounds per square inch is the most efficient final compression pressure to have for this engine at sea level, since it comes directly from the compression ratio.
It is known by experiment that the corresponding value of P', expressed in pounds per square inch, is 14.
This air is under ordinary atmospheric pressure when it enters, but on the return stroke of the piston it is compressed to about 500 pounds per square inch.
Relation of fibre stress at elastic limit in bending to the crushing strength of blocks cut therefrom in pounds per square inch VI.
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