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Hydrostatic Seal
A hydrostatic seal is a non-contacting mechanical seal that operates under an equilibrium of forces. Unlike traditional hydrodynamic seals, Hydrostatic seals have two different pressure zones that are used to establish a balanced pressure zone between two seal faces. The two pressure system makes the seal unique because typical mechanical seals have one pressure zone that created causes a buildup of pressure that will eventually cause the seal to malfunction. After pressure has come to an equilibrium at the seal face, an incompressible fluid is then released between the two seal faces. The fluid creates a film around the seal face that acts as a lubricant and as a medium for the substance flowing through the seal. Hydrostatic seals have been used in the aircraft industry; however they have seen very little commercial use because there is minimal research about the seals. Pressure and Operation Once pressure is applied and the seal comes together, a viscous liquid is released betw ...
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Seal (mechanical)
A mechanical seal is a device that helps join systems and mechanisms together by preventing leakage (e.g. in a pumping system), containing pressure, or excluding contamination. The effectiveness of a seal is dependent on adhesion in the case of sealants and compression in the case of gaskets. The seals are installed in pumps in a wide range of industries including chemicals, water supply, paper production, food processing and many other applications. A stationary seal may also be referred to as 'packing'. Seal types: *Induction sealing or cap sealing * Adhesive, sealant * Bodok seal, a specialized gas sealing washer for medical applications * Bonded seal, also known as Dowty seal or Dowty washer. A type of washer with integral gasket, widely used to provide a seal at the entry point of a screw or bolt * Bridgman seal, a piston sealing mechanism that creates a high pressure reservoir from a lower pressure source *Bung *Compression seal fitting *Diaphragm seal *Ferrofluidic se ...
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Stress Testing
Stress testing (sometimes called torture testing) is a form of deliberately intense or thorough testing used to determine the stability of a given system, critical infrastructure or entity. It involves testing beyond normal operational capacity, often to a breaking point, in order to observe the results. Reasons can include: * to determine breaking points or safe usage limits * to confirm mathematical model is accurate enough in predicting breaking points or safe usage limits * to confirm intended specifications are being met * to determine modes of failure (how exactly a system fails) * to test stable operation of a part or system outside standard usage Reliability engineers often test items under expected stress or even under accelerated stress in order to determine the operating life of the item or to determine modes of failure. The term "stress" may have a more specific meaning in certain industries, such as material sciences, and therefore stress testing may sometimes have ...
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Leakage (chemistry)
A leak is a way (usually an opening) for fluid to escape a container or fluid-containing system, such as a tank or a ship's hull, through which the contents of the container can escape or outside matter can enter the container. Leaks are usually unintended and therefore undesired. The word ''leak'' usually refers to a gradual loss; a sudden loss is usually called a ''spill''. The matter leaking in or out can be gas, liquid, a highly viscous paste, or even a solid such as a powdered or granular solid or other solid particles. Sometimes the word "''leak''" is used in a figurative sense. For example, in a news leak secret information becomes public. According to ASTM D7053-17, water leakage is the passage of (liquid) water through a material or system designed to prevent passage of water. Types and possible causes Types of leak openings include a puncture, gash, rust or other corrosion hole, very tiny ''pinhole leak'' (possibly in imperfect welds), crack or microcrack, or i ...
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Restoring Force
In physics, the restoring force is a force that acts to bring a body to its equilibrium position. The restoring force is a function only of position of the mass or particle, and it is always directed back toward the equilibrium position of the system. The restoring force is often referred to in simple harmonic motion. The force responsible for restoring original size and shape is called the restoring force. An example is the action of a spring. An idealized spring exerts a force proportional to the amount of deformation of the spring from its equilibrium length, exerted in a direction oppose the deformation. Pulling the spring to a greater length causes it to exert a force that brings the spring back toward its equilibrium length. The amount of force can be determined by multiplying the spring constant, characteristic of the spring, by the amount of stretch, also known as Hooke's Law. Another example is of a pendulum. When a pendulum is not swinging all the forces acting on i ...
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Axial Tilt
In astronomy, axial tilt, also known as obliquity, is the angle between an object's rotational axis and its orbital axis, which is the line perpendicular to its orbital plane; equivalently, it is the angle between its equatorial plane and orbital plane. It differs from orbital inclination. At an obliquity of 0 degrees, the two axes point in the same direction; that is, the rotational axis is perpendicular to the orbital plane. The rotational axis of Earth, for example, is the imaginary line that passes through both the North Pole and South Pole, whereas the Earth's orbital axis is the line perpendicular to the imaginary plane through which the Earth moves as it revolves around the Sun; the Earth's obliquity or axial tilt is the angle between these two lines. Earth's obliquity oscillates between 22.1 and 24.5 degrees on a 41,000-year cycle. Based on a continuously updated formula (here Laskar, 1986, though since 2006 the IMCCE and the IAU recommend the P03 model), Earth's mea ...
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Lewis Research Center
NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field is a NASA center within the cities of Brook Park and Cleveland between Cleveland Hopkins International Airport and the Rocky River Reservation of Cleveland Metroparks, with a subsidiary facility in Sandusky, Ohio. Its acting director is James A. Kenyon. Glenn Research Center is one of ten major NASA facilities, whose primary mission is to develop science and technology for use in aeronautics and space. , it employed about 1,650 civil servants and 1,850 support contractors on or near its site. In 2010, the formerly on-site NASA Visitors Center moved to the Great Lakes Science Center in the North Coast Harbor area of downtown Cleveland. History The installation was established in 1942 as part of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and was later incorporated into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as a laboratory for aircraft engine research. It was first named the Aircraft Engine Research Labor ...
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Morph
Morph may refer to: Biology * Morph (zoology), a visual or behavioral difference between organisms of distinct populations in a species * Muller's morphs, a classification scheme for genetic mutations * "-morph", a suffix commonly used in taxonomy Computing * Morphing, in motion pictures and animations, a special effect that changes one image into another through a seamless transition ** Gryphon Software Morph, morphing software * Morph target animation, a method of animating computer generated imagery Fiction * ''Morph'' (TV series), animated television series ** ''The Amazing Adventures of Morph'', a British stop-motion clay animation television show * Morph (comics), an ''X-Men'' character of Marvel comics * In ''Animorphs,'' "morphing" is alien technology that allows one to transform into any animal or person that one touches Music * ''Morph'', a 2014 album by Hins Cheung * ''Morph'', a 2018 album by Yentl en De Boer * "Morph" (song), a 2018 song by Twenty One ...
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Hydrodynamic Seal
{{Unreferenced, date=June 2019, bot=noref (GreenC bot) A hydrodynamic seal is a type of mechanical seal. A hydrodynamic seals uses a dynamic rotor with grooves that act as a pump and create an air film that the opposing sealing surface will ride on. A hydrodynamic seal performs better than hydrostatic seals by providing greater film stiffness, lower leakage and lower lift off speeds. Hydrodynamic seals have a variety of applications in multiple industries. there are a large number of various groove designs that have been proposed and tested. Types of Hydrodynamic Grooves * Spiral Groove * Wave * V Grooves * U Grooves * Double V Grooves Seals (mechanical) ...
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Balanced Module
In the subfield of abstract algebra known as module theory, a right ''R'' module ''M'' is called a balanced module (or is said to have the double centralizer property) if every endomorphism of the abelian group ''M'' which commutes with all ''R''-endomorphisms of ''M'' is given by multiplication by a ring element. Explicitly, for any additive endomorphism ''f'', if ''fg'' = ''gf'' for every ''R'' endomorphism ''g'', then there exists an ''r'' in ''R'' such that ''f''(''x'') = ''xr'' for all ''x'' in ''M''. In the case of non-balanced modules, there will be such an ''f'' that is not expressible this way. In the language of centralizers, a balanced module is one satisfying the conclusion of the double centralizer theorem, that is, the only endomorphisms of the group ''M'' commuting with all the ''R'' endomorphisms of ''M'' are the ones induced by right multiplication by ring elements. A ring is called balanced if every right ''R'' module is balanced.The definitions ...
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Stagnant Pools
Stagnant Pools are an American two-piece band from Bloomington, Indiana, United States, who have been compared to acts such as Sonic Youth and Joy Division by the ''Chicago Reader'', and Pitchfork. The ensemble consists of Bryan and Douglass Enas. On May 17, 2012, it was announced that the group's first album, ''Temporary Room'', would be released on August 7, 2012, by Polyvinyl Records. The band has supported Maxïmo Park, Japandroids, David Bazan, and School of Seven Bells, on tour. Personnel * Bryan Enas – vocals, guitar * Doug Enas - drums Discography Albums * ''Temporary Room'' (Polyvinyl Records In polymer chemistry, vinyl polymers are a group of polymers derived from substituted Vinyl group, vinyl () monomers. Their Polymer backbone, backbone is an extended alkane chain . In popular usage, "vinyl" refers only to polyvinyl chloride (PVC) ..., August 2012) *''Geist'' (Polyvinyl, June 10, 2014) References {{Authority control Alternative rock groups from Indiana ...
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Ammonia
Ammonia is an inorganic compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula . A stable binary hydride, and the simplest pnictogen hydride, ammonia is a colourless gas with a distinct pungent smell. Biologically, it is a common nitrogenous waste, particularly among aquatic organisms, and it contributes significantly to the nutritional needs of terrestrial organisms by serving as a precursor to 45% of the world's food and fertilizers. Around 70% of ammonia is used to make fertilisers in various forms and composition, such as urea and Diammonium phosphate. Ammonia in pure form is also applied directly into the soil. Ammonia, either directly or indirectly, is also a building block for the synthesis of many pharmaceutical products and is used in many commercial cleaning products. It is mainly collected by downward displacement of both air and water. Although common in nature—both terrestrially and in the outer planets of the Solar System—and in wide use, ammonia is both caust ...
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Warp
Warp, warped or warping may refer to: Arts and entertainment Books and comics * WaRP Graphics, an alternative comics publisher * ''Warp'' (First Comics), comic book series published by First Comics based on the play ''Warp!'' * Warp (comics), a DC Comics supervillain * ''Warp'' (magazine), formerly the magazine and official organ of the New Zealand National Association for Science Music * Warp (record label), an independent UK record label ** Warp Films, a side project of Warp Records ** Warp 10: Influences, Classics, Remixes, a series of compilation albums issued by Warp Records in 1999 Albums * ''Warp'' (album), 1982 album by New Musik * ''Warp'', 2001 album by the Japanese band Judy and Mary * ''W.A.R.P.E.D.'', a 2005 album by Savatage guitarist Chris Caffery Songs * "Warp", 2009 single by The Bloody Beetroots * "Warped" (song), a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers from their 1995 album ''One Hot Minute'' * "Warped", a song by Blackfoot from the 1980 album '' Tomcatt ...
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