 The rotation of the wheel is arrested as soon as the friction between the brake-block and the wheel exceeds the adhesion between the wheel and the rail ; and therefore the amount of pressure which should be applied to the wheel is a function of the weight...  A Life of George Westinghouse - Page 69by Henry Goslee Prout, American Society of Mechanical Engineers - 1922 - 375 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Park Benjamin - Mechanical engineering - 1878 - 994 pages
...possible, short of the point which would cause the wheels to be skidded and slide on the rails. 2. The rotation of the wheel is arrested as soon as the friction between the brake-block and the wheel exceeds the adhesion between the wheel and the rail, and therefore the amount... | |
 | Sir Douglas Strutt Galton - Brakes - 1894 - 196 pages
...possible, short of the point which would c.ause the wheels to be skidded and to slide on the rails. 3rd. The rotation of the wheel is arrested as soon as the friction between the brake-block and the wheel exceeds the adhesion between the wheel and the rail ; and therefore the amount... | |
 | Walter Loring Webb - Railroad engineering - 1903 - 784 pages
...adhesion or static friction between the wheel and the rail. When the friction between the brake-shoe and the wheel exceeds the adhesion between the wheel and the rail, the wheel skids, and then the friction between the wheel and the rail at once drops to a much less... | |
 | George R. Henderson - Collection locomotives - 1904 - 554 pages
...possible, short of the point which would cause the wheels to be skidded and to slide on the rails. "Third. The rotation of the wheel is arrested as soon as the friction between the brakeshoe and the wheel exceeds the adhesion between the wheel and the rail ; and therefore the amount... | |
 | Walter Loring Webb - Railroad engineering - 1917 - 928 pages
...adhesion or static friction between the wheel and the rail. When the friction between the brake-shoe and the wheel exceeds the adhesion between the wheel and the rail, the wheel skids, and then the friction between the wheel and the rail at once drops to a much less... | |
 | Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Great Britain) - Mechanical engineering - 1878 - 904 pages
...possible, short of the point which would cause the wheels to be skidded and to slide on the rails. 3rd. The rotation of the wheel is arrested as soon as the friction between the brake-block and the wheel exceeds the adhesion between the wheel and the rail ; and therefore the amount... | |
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