Sims, A.M.

Sims Papers: Box 8

Quarterly Technical Bulletins edited and issued by the Deputy Director, Civil Engineering, Railway Board [East India Railways].

    1. Issues held, dated 1927 – 1947:-

Handwritten copies of articles taken from the following bulletins:-

 

 

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      • The fracturing of fish-plates
      • What percentage of the reciprocating masses of the metre gauge locomotive it is necessary to balance
      • Indian railway gauges
      • Replacing damaged web members in a 216 ft. Pratt truss span
      • The interpretation of coal analysis
      • Testing holding power of dog spikes….
      • Masonry arches of 100 ft. span….
      • Testing holding power of spikes….
      • A simple method of realigning curves
      • Strengthening the piers of Sabarmati bridge
      • Measurements of stresses in rails
      • Dismantling of arched overbridges….
      • ….the present policy of balancing two-thirds of the reciprocating mass of the locomotive….
      • The construction of nomograms
      • ….the effective distribution of loading on the pontoons and the stresses induced in the distributing girders
      • Industrial methods of water softening
      • Vol. III, 1932, No. 25, includes
        • Rails with lap in web and impact tests
        • Theoretical considerations of the geometrical layout of points and crossings
      • Handwritten extract from Vol. III, 1933. No. 29.
        – Cant affecting the safe speed on a curve
      • Vol. III, 1933, No. 30, includes
        • Laying of permanent way on lines under construction….
        • Comparative costs of reinforced beams for various mixtures
        • Plate girder calculations by graphical methods
        • Railway level crossings – movable barriers
      • Handwritten extract from Vol. III, 1934, No. 32.
        – Speed on curves laid with reduced superelevation
      • Vol. III, 1934, No. 33, includes
        • Roaring rails
        • Two-hinged culverts
      • Handwritten extract from Vol. III, 1934, No. 34.
        – Trials to determine the effect on tractive effort of gauge widening on curves
      • Vol. III, 1934, No. 35, includes
        • G.I.P. railway dynamometer car trials
        • Industrial methods of water softening, pt. II
        • Boiler feed water treatment
      • Vol. III, 1935, No. 36, includes
        • Interlocking design [in railway signalling]
        • ….effects of the Bhakra Dam scheme on the inundation canals….
      • Handwritten extract from Vol. IV, 1935, No. 38
        – Design of an earthquake resisting hospital at Quetta
      • Vol. IV, 1938, No. 48, includes
        • Deformation stresses by the method of “systematic relaxation of constraints”
      • Handwritten extract from Vol. V, 1938, No. 51
        – Earthquake reconstruction of buildings on Quetta railway division (part of)
      • Vol. V, 1939 No. 52, includes
        • Appendices to Earthquake reconstruction….Quetta…., above
    2. Handwritten copies of articles taken from the following bulletins:-

      • Vol. V, 1939-41. Nos. 54, 56, 58, 60.

 

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Sims Papers: Box 7

Railways Board of India. Technical papers covering many areas of India and very many aspects of railway design, including subjects as diverse as foundations, tracks, bridges, inclines, curvature, signalling, safety, etc., and construction, wear, creep, costs, etc. often relevant specifically to Indian railways but also in many cases applicable to railway engineering generally.

Sims Papers: Box 6

Railways Board of India. Technical papers covering many areas of India and very many aspects of railway design, including subjects as diverse as foundations, tracks, bridges, inclines, curvature, signalling, safety, etc., and construction, wear, creep, costs, etc. often relevant specifically to Indian railways but also in many cases applicable to railway engineering generally.

Sims Papers: Box 5

Railways Board of India. Technical papers covering many areas of India and very many aspects of railway design, including subjects as diverse as foundations, tracks, bridges, inclines, curvature, signalling, safety, etc., and construction, wear, creep, costs, etc. often relevant specifically to Indian railways but also in many cases applicable to railway engineering generally.

Sims Papers: Box 4

Railways Board of India. Technical papers covering many areas of India and very many aspects of railway design, including subjects as diverse as foundations, tracks, bridges, inclines, curvature, signalling, safety, etc., and construction, wear, creep, costs, etc. often relevant specifically to Indian railways but also in many cases applicable to railway engineering generally.

Sims Papers: Box 3

Railways Board of India. Technical papers covering many areas of India and very many aspects of railway design, including subjects as diverse as foundations, tracks, bridges, inclines, curvature, signalling, safety, etc., and construction, wear, creep, costs, etc. often relevant specifically to Indian railways but also in many cases applicable to railway engineering generally.

Sims Papers: Box 2

Railways Board of India. Technical papers covering many areas of India and very many aspects of railway design, including subjects as diverse as foundations, tracks, bridges, inclines, curvature, signalling, safety, etc., and construction, wear, creep, costs, etc. often relevant specifically to Indian railways but also in many cases applicable to railway engineering generally.

Sims Papers: Box 1

Given by A.M. Sims

  1. Government of India. Railway Department (Central Standards Office for Railways).
    Track Stress Research. November 1935 – November 1938.
    Progress Reports, Vols I (113pp.) and II (309pp.) by W.E. Gelson and E.A. Blackwood.
  2. Confidential note on the organization, functions, and working of the English Railway Rates Tribunal by E.A. Sims, M.Inst.T. Member Railway Rates Advisory Committee. Government of India. n.d. 135 pp. foolscap.
  3. Paper by A.M. Sims on riots in the Punjab in 1919. 1968. MS 3 pp.