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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:-

 

• Vol. I, 1927-29. Nos. 4, 8-12.
• Vol. II, 1929-32. Nos. 13-18, 21, 24.

 

1. -:include titles such as:-

   2. • 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
   3. • Vol. III, 1932, No. 25, includes
        • Rails with lap in web and impact tests
        • Theoretical considerations of the geometrical layout of points and crossings
   4. • Handwritten extract from Vol. III, 1933. No. 29.
        – Cant affecting the safe speed on a curve
   5. • 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
   6. • Handwritten extract from Vol. III, 1934, No. 32.
        – Speed on curves laid with reduced superelevation
   7. • Vol. III, 1934, No. 33, includes
        • Roaring rails
        • Two-hinged culverts
   8. • Handwritten extract from Vol. III, 1934, No. 34.
        – Trials to determine the effect on tractive effort of gauge widening on curves
   9. • 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….
   10. • Handwritten extract from Vol. IV, 1935, No. 38
         – Design of an earthquake resisting hospital at Quetta
   11. • Vol. IV, 1938, No. 48, includes
         • Deformation stresses by the method of “systematic relaxation of constraints”
   12. • Handwritten extract from Vol. V, 1938, No. 51
         – Earthquake reconstruction of buildings on Quetta railway division (part of)
   13. • Vol. V, 1939 No. 52, includes
         • Appendices to Earthquake reconstruction….Quetta…., above

   Handwritten copies of articles taken from the following bulletins:-

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

 

1. • Vol. VI, 1941-43. Nos. 61, 63, 64, 67-69..

-:include titles such as:-

2. • The hammer-blow of locomotives from the civil engineer’s point of view
   • Design of earthquake-resisting buildings
   • Preparation of signalling plan and locking table relating to “square sheet”
   • Pooling of locomotives and its financial effects
   • A rational method of calculating the lengths of transition curves
   • The balanced turn-table – some notes on improvements to engine turntables on the N.W. railway
   • Notes on the relation between blast orifice diameter, back pressure, fuel economy and power in the conventional steam locomotive
   • The strength of compression members in bridges and structures
   • 105 ft. plate girder span of small construction depth – M.G., M.L. standard loading
   • The hammerblow of three-cylinder engines
   • Estimation of the number of B.G. wagons required for traffic
3. • Vol. VII, 1944. No. 73, includes
     • The salvaging and re-insulating of wire from burnt out and damaged electrical machinery
     • A guide to the correct hardness of tools
     • Universal type points clamp
     • Rigid frame designs
   • Vol. VII, 1944. No. 74, includes
     • Pile bridging across deep and swiftly flowing water
     • Railway helical and volute springs, material, manufacture and design
     • Note on stress distribution in a railway sleeper
   • Vol. VII, 1944. No. 75, includes
     • Stress distribution in a rail-joint
4. • Handwritten extract from Vol.VII, 1945, No.76
     – Hill torrents
5. • Vol. VII, 1945. No. 77, includes
     • Prestressing the new girders of the Palar bridge
6. • Handwritten extract from Vol.VII, 1945, No.78
     – Well foundations for bridges
7. • Handwritten extract from Vol.VII, 1946, No.80
     – Formula for the analysis of wagon usage
8. • Vol. VII, 1946. No. 81, includes
     • Deformation stresses in bridge girders
9. • Handwritten extract from Vol.VII, 1946, No.82
     – Scientific research on Indian railways
10. • Handwritten extract from Vol.VIII, 1947, No.84
      – Precast reinforced concrete box culverts
11. • Vol. VIII, 1947. No. 86, includes
      • Symmetrical two-span rigid frames
      • A practical hint on the cold bending of mild steel rods