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Strength and Elasticity of Perforated Metal
Description: When considering the use of perforated metal, the ability to provide a desired level of strength and elasticity can be of great importance. Realizing that perforated metal is neither stronger nor ...
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The Formability of Perforated Metal
Description: The Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Ohio State University using methods, tooling, and a testing machine of their design, generally referred to as the OSU Formability Test, were ...
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DART™ Analysis of Aspirin
From: JEOL USA, Inc.Description: In a recently published comparison1 of the ambient ionization techniques direct analysis in real time (DART™ 2) and DESI3, it was reported that a protonated molecule was not observed for DART, ...
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Method for Powder Coating the Surface of Heat Sensitive Objects
Description: Method and plant for powder coating the surfaces of objects with polymeric powder having a melting and softening temperature near 100° C., said polymeric powder includes a polymer curable under the ...
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Automotive Fatigue Life and Dynamic Mechanical Analysis of a Matrix Polymer
Description: Many exterior components on modern automobiles are fabricated from advanced polymer and composite materials. Knowledge of the strength and durability of these raw materials is becoming increasingly ...
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Effects of Chlorinated Water on Plastic-Based Water Delivery Systems (.pdf)
From: Solvay Advanced PolymersDescription: Chlorinated water remains one of the most significant advancements in public health. This practice dramatically improves our quality of life by giving us the assurance that we get clean, safe drinking ...
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Impact of Common Disinfection Practices on Sulfone Polymer Plumbing Fittings (.pdf)
From: Solvay Advanced PolymersDescription: Solvay Advanced Polymers supplies high-performance sulphone polymers that are used in water handling devices. These include UDEL® polysulfone, RADEL® R polyphenyl-sulfone and ACUDEL™ ...
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Industrial Finishing: Coatings Manufacturing & Application
Description: A new combination infrared/convection oven is bringing a number of advantages in the curing of an assortment of powder-coated telephone communications equipment for a California manufacturer. Hendry ...
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LTHS of Sulfone-Based Polymers (.pdf)
From: Solvay Advanced PolymersDescription: Plastic piping systems for both residential and commercial plumbing are becoming much more prevalent because of their outstanding corrosion resistance and ability to eliminate potential contamination ...
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Resistance of Unfilled Engineering Polymers to Prolonged Hot Water Exposure (.pdf)
From: Solvay Advanced PolymersDescription: When selecting materials for use in hot water plumbing systems, it is important to consider how the physical and mechanical properties of the various thermoplastic resins are affected by exposure to ...
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Alternatives to SLA
From: RedEye On DemandDescription: UV-curable photopolymer resins make up more than 60 percent of the rapid prototyping and digital manufacturing industry. PolyJet™ resin is similar to a standard resin-like material, but combined ...
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Bonded Abrasives Basics
From: Zo-Air Co., Inc.Description: The abrasive materials, ceramic alumina, zirconia alumina, aluminum oxide and silicon carbide, perform the cutting action. An ideal grinding abrasive has the ability to fracture before serious dulling ...
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Defect-free Sintering of Two Material Powder Injection Molded Components (Part 1)
Description: Functional grading of components requires the design and fabrication of two or more material systems whose combination endows unique properties, specific to the desired application. An example is the ...
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Defect-free Sintering of Two Material Powder Injection Molded Components (Part II)
Description: A defect-free, two-material component can be obtained via co-sintering by suitably altering the powder characteristics or compositions, as demonstrated in Part 1. In this paper, a model to ascertain ...
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Isotropic Forming of Porous Structures via Metal Injection Molding
Description: Porous 316L stainless steel structures have been fabricated via metal injection molding (MIM) for both water- and gas-atomized powders. The metal injection molding process offers the unique ability to ...
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LNP Lubriloy Compounds
From: SABICDescription: The LNP* Lubricomp* compounds of SABIC Innovative Plastics are technology leaders in internally lubricated thermoplastics. These materials are the result of listening to the market place and creating ...
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Mechanical Properties of Metal Injection Moulded 316L Stainless Steel Using Both Prealloy and Master Alloy Techniques
Description: Stainless steel 316L MIM components can be made from either prealloyed powders or from master alloys blended with carbonyl iron powder. In this study these two techniques were compared using ...
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Metal Injection Molding of Co-28Cr-6Mo
Description: Metal injection molding of gas- and water-atomized Co-28Cr- 6Mo powders is evaluated. Sintering is conducted in different atmospheres to evaluate their effects on sintering response and carbon, ...
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Qualification Method For Powder Injection Molded Components
Description: The PIM process produces net-shape or near netshape parts at a reduced manufacturing cost; however, significant process and product qualification is required to ensure that the final product is ...
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The Effect of Nickel on the Mechancial Behavior of Molybdenum P/M Steels
Description: This study has examined the effects of nickel alloying additions on the microstructural characteristics and mechanical properties of Fe-xNi-0.85Mo-0.4C-base steels that were powder processed using ...
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Understanding Shrinkage and Warpage of Reinforced and Filled Thermoplastics
From: SABICDescription: Injection molded parts are occasionally out of tolerance-not so much because tools are cut to incorrect linear shrinkage rates, but because parts warp and distort. To varying degrees, this situation ...
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Variability of Feedstock Viscosity and Its Correlation with Dimensional Variability of Green Powder Injection Moulded Components
Description: In this study, a correlation between green part dimensional variation and feedstock viscosity variation is presented for the powder injection moulding (PIM) manufacturing process. A correlation of an ...
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LNP Thermocomp Products: Design Properties Profile
From: SABICDescription: LNP* Specialty Compounds offers a wide selection of reinforced, filled and lubricated thermoplastic compounds. This design properties profile indicates some common glass fiber reinforced compounds in ...
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Long Term Behaviour of Reinforced Thermoplastics
From: SABICDescription: New materials and improved reinforcements have expanded the performance envelope of engineered thermoplastics. Improved properties, such as tensile modulus and strength, make thermoplastics attractive ...
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Thermal and Environmental Resistance of Glass Reinforced Plastics
From: SABICDescription: It's common knowledge that glass reinforcement increases room-temperature mechanical properties of thermoplastics by a factor of two or more. But what amount of this increase is maintained after ...
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Reference Guide: Properties and Characteristics of Urethane and Rubbers
From: MISUMI USADescription: IStandard of Shore Hardness of Urethane, Rubber CSelect the Shore A95, Shore A90, Shore A70, Shore A50, and Shore A30 based on the hardness of a golf ball, a hardball(using baseball), a softball, a ...
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Reference Guide: Resin Plates Characteristics
From: MISUMI USADescription: Characteristics of Bakelite Plates MISUMI's Bakelite Plates are products which can be used as insulating plates for switch boards, controllers, breakers and other parts. Paper base type is available ...
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Design Properties Profile
From: SABICDescription: LNP* Specialty Compounds offers a wide selection of reinforced, filled and lubricated thermoplastic compounds. This design properties profile indicates some common glass fiber reinforced compounds in ...
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Designing with Engineering Plastics
From: SABICDescription: Successful part design with melt-processable plastic materials can be accomplished in a parallel design process having three stages-preliminary, engineering and manufacturing. Design engineers are ...
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Improving the Surface Finish of Reinforced Thermoplastics
From: SABICDescription: Both aesthetics and function of a reinforced thermoplastic part are affected by surface finish variables - the type of plastics being molded, the combination of additives specified and the processing ...
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Choosing Plastics for Chemical Resistance
From: SABICDescription: A chemical environment offers one of the most demanding tests of a plastic's durability. Add heat, and the problem is compounded. Here is new data to help you choose the best plastic for intended use ...
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Material Compatibility for Product Performance Quality
Description: Making a New Medical Device or Product? Plastic part compatibility and selecting materials are just as important as shelf life stability, product performance and FDA compliance. Make sure the ...
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Rheology Benefits for Blending and Extrusion
Description: Rheology is the science that studies the deformation and flow of materials, whether in liquid, melt, or solid form, in terms of the material's elasticity and viscosity. We test the following: liquids, ...
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Classifying Polymers and Screening
Description: Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) identifies chemical bonds in a molecule by producing an infrared absorption spectrum. The FTIR generates an infrared spectral scan of samples that absorb ...
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Mitigating Climate Change
From: Calpipe IndustriesDescription: ALREADY ONE OF the most recycled materials in the world, stainless steel could, theoretically, be made entirely from scrap if there weren't serious limitations on the availability of this material. IF ...
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Adhesion, Adhesion Failure, and BONDiT
From: RELTEK, LLCDescription: Bonding of organic polymers to inorganic surfaces is hardly new technology. The Sumerians and Babylonians used asphalt and pitch for floor covering and paving. Naturally occurring polymers were used ...
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Advances in Polymer-to-Metal Bonding for Underwater Environments
From: RELTEK, LLCDescription: Bonding of organic polymers to inorganic surfaces is hardly new technology. The Sumerians and Babylonians used asphalt and pitch for floor covering and paving. Naturally occurring polymers were used ...
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Dihydropyran Technical Information Bulletin
From: Sigma-AldrichDescription: Dihydropyran, a versatile vinyl ether, reacts with alcohols under mild acid catalysis1 (p-toluenesulfonic acid or, more effectively, boron trifluoride etherate2) to form tetrahydropyranyl ethers which ...
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Instructions for Handling Glass Bottles of Sulfur Trioxide, Stabilized
From: Sigma-AldrichDescription: Sulfur trioxide, stabilized (Sulfan®, sulfuric anhydride) is a powerful sulfurating agent, very strong oxidizer, and strongly acidic. ...
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Furnace Insulation Upgrades and Energy Efficiency
From: G.I.S., Inc.Description: With todays energy costs, many heat treaters may be considering furnace replacement. A more economical option may be to perform an energy analysis and upgrade the furnace insulation system. ...
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Why Is It So Noisy
From: G.I.S., Inc.Description: In a 1930s pulp magazine entitled The Avenger, a character walking down a street saw a building explode. He did not hear it explode because, according to the narrative, the sound was so loud that his ...
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Chemistry From Dow Keeping Bell's Beer Cool and Consistent
Description: For the world's largest brewers of beer and for one of the most popular "craft" brewers in the Midwest, "keeping cool" is not a lightly used phrase; it is critical for business. That is the reason ...
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MTII Provides Dimensional Measurements for an Automated Construction Blocks and Paver Qualifier
From: MTI Instruments Inc.Description: Structural building panels, acoustical tiles and manufactured pavers fit together like the toy building blocks you had as a kid. Remember when your set had a slightly larger or smaller block that ...
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Some Essentials for Hydronic Snowmelt Systems
Description: A growing number of building owners are investing in an alternative approach to sidewalk snow removal- hydronic radiant heat snowmelt systems. They are a convenient, cost-effective, and ...
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3 Part Specifications for Brick & Stone Panels
From: Nichiha USA, Inc.Description: Furnish and install Nichiha fiber cement brick and stone panels where shown on drawings or specified herein. ...
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3 Part Specifications for Sierra Premium Panels
From: Nichiha USA, Inc.Description: Furnish and install Nichiha Sierra Premium fiber cement panels where shown on drawings or specified herein. ...
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Brick Installation
From: Nichiha USA, Inc.Description: Guide for installing brick stones. ...
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Caulk & Sealant
From: Nichiha USA, Inc.Description: The following is a list of sealant and caulk manufacturers tested for installation of Nichiha fiber cement panels. ...
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Newport Brick Touch-Up Paint Formula
From: Nichiha USA, Inc.Description: The following is a list of paint manufacturers tested formulas for touch-up restoration of Nichiha fiber cement panels. ...
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Abrasive Filament Brush Deburring of Powdered Metal Components
From: Abtex CorporationDescription: The deburring of PM parts is commonly performed in a batch process. This typically involves loading a quantity of parts into a vibratory bowl filled with abrasive media. The vibration of the bowl ...
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Features and Benefits of Abtex Abrasive Brushing Tools (.pdf)
From: Abtex CorporationDescription: Abtex Corporation manufactures abrasive filament brushing tools. Since 1979 we have focused exclusively on the formatting of abrasive filaments in various brush configurations. This concentration has ...
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Extruded Net in Filtration Applications
From: Industrial NettingDescription: The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of extruded plastic netting and its uses in the filtration industry. The paper focuses on the physical properties of extruded netting relative to ...
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RackGuard Installation at L'Oreal (.pdf)
From: Industrial NettingDescription: For some people, job safety is one of those back-of-the-mind things that hopefully jumps out at the right time to keep them out of danger. For others, like Donna Muniz, job safety is a way of life. ...
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Guide to Selecting UCON Fluids and Lubricants
Description: The broad line of UCON™ fluids and lubricants includes a wide range of base stocks and formulated products that differ significantly from petroleum, animal, and vegetable oils. These ...
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UCON Fluids and Lubricants
Description: UCON fluids and lubricants differ substantially from petroleum, animal, and vegetable oils. As synthetic products, they can be controlled and varied to a degree not possible with natural oils and ...
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Textured Applications
From: Objet, Inc.Description: "3-D texture has primarily been used for visualization, appearance and rendering purposes," says Mr. Antonius Köster, Director of Modellbau and Innovative Cad Cam Solutions. ...
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UV Curing Adhesives and Potting Compounds
From: Epoxies Etc...Description: Recent advancements in ultraviolet curing have given engineers a new opportunity when choosing adhesives, potting compounds, coatings, and sealants. Until now, most of these systems were either ...
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The Right Compound
From: Lauren Manufacturing Co.Description: Often, design engineers do not realize how critical the initial compound is to the entire design process. Change a little on the accelerators or age resistors, and your finished compound meets or ...
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Capitalize on Plastics for Appliances
Description: When it comes to using plastics in high-load applications, the appliance industry is beginning to follow the trend realized several years ago by automobile manufacturers. Carmakers today use plastics ...
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Dynamic Testing Uncovers Rheology of Rubber
Description: Molecular weight, molecular weight distribution, and long chain branching of uncured rubber compounds are important parameters to understand to predict the curing process and fi nal material ...
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Engineering Polymers In Nonwovens, Fibers And Other Extruded Substrates
Description: The processing considerations and potential applications for two different semicrystalline engineering polymers in extrusion are described. Specifically, they include Polyphenylene Sulfide (PPS) and ...
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Exploiting the Potential of Plastics Gears
Description: Plastic gears are now being used in drives of higher power and higher precision than in the past. They afford appliance designers dramatic opportunities to reduce drive cost, noise and weight. ...
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Fatigue Testing of Thin Metallic Foils and Wires
Description: Metal foils and wires are used in a wide variety of applications from radiators to Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) to electronics to optics to food preparation. Knowing how long the foil and ...
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Fuel Resistant Plastics
Description: Without plastics, automakers would have been hard pressed to develop fuel systems that simultaneously withstand aggressive fuels, reduce vehicle weight, aid impact resistance, and enable complex ...
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Generation of Master Curves for Cured Rubber
Description: The Williams, Landel & Ferry model (WLF) uses time-temperature superposition to generate master curves that predict the dynamic behavior of materials at frequencies outside the range of practical ...
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High Impact Strength Reinforced Polyester Engineering Resins for Automotive Applications
Description: Engineering plastics have been used extensively in automobiles in a variety of applications such as grille opening retainers, bumpers and decorative panels. Recently, engineering plastics are also ...
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How High Performance Liquid Crystal Polymers Cut the Cost of Precision Medical Parts
Description: With liquid crystal polymers (LCPs), the medical device designer can improve part economics as well as performance and processing compared with metals and other plastic materials. LCPs eliminate ...
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Improving Appliances with Plastic Gears
Description: For the appliance engineer, plastic gears are a powerful means to cut cost, weight, noise and wear. They also open new opportunities for smaller, more efficient drives. What are the payoffs when using ...
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Lasermarkable Engineering Resins
Description: Over a quarter century ago, lasers were thought of as "tools of destruction." From cutting through steel to use as weapons, lasers were powerful devices and thought to only be used that way. Of course ...
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Making Composite Competitive
Description: New technologies to bond materials that could not previously be joined together, to increase the strength of composite bonds and to develop nanocomposites are ushering in a new era of composite ...
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Making Sense of High-Temperature Thermoplastics
Description: Many electrical, automotive, industrial and other applications call for costeffective materials with superior mechanical and electrical performance at elevated temperatures. During the past ...
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Plastics and Aggressive Fuels - 5,000 Hour Study
Description: Auto fuel systems, long challenging environments for engineering thermoplastics, became more so during the past decade as new fuels were introduced and fuel temperatures rose. The demands on plastics ...
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Plastics for the Long Haul
Description: Polymer selection helps automotive fuel-system components survive for the life of the vehicle. ...
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Through the Microscope Fracture Analysis of Long-Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastics
Description: Classic fracture analysis of unfilled plastics has welldefined and well-documented methods for determining what happened to broken parts. However, introducing long-fibers into the picture obscures ...
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Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMWPE)
Description: ULTRA HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT P O LYETHYLENE (UHMWPE) is a line a r, low-pre s s u re, Ziegler-type catalyst, polyethylene resin. Its weight-average molecular weight of 4 X 106 is appro x i m a t e l y ...
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Unfilled Liquid Crystal Polymers
Description: Unfilled (neat) liquid crystal polymers (LCP) have excellent thermal and dimensional stability, as well as high rigidity, strength, and chemical resistance. LCP parts can be molded with great ...
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Using and Specifying Plastic Gears
Description: For mechanical engineers, plastic gears are a powerful means of cutting drive-cost, weight, noise and wear. Plastic gears also open new opportunities for smaller, more efficient transmissions in many ...
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Introduction To Color Theory
Description: People usually associate color with physical objects that are viewed in sharp contrast to their surroundings: be it a beautiful flower arrangement, or a colorful spinnaker on a sailboat against a ...
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Switching From Metals To Plastics
Description: The use of plastics in place of metals is helping many manufacturers maintain profit margins as costs and competition increase. These manufacturers are finding that the switch also improves products, ...
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Metal Measurement Conversion Utility
Description: This utility gives the user the ability to convert Length, Area, Volume, Weight and temperature into the various measurement systems from around the world. From metric to English measurements and also ...
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SteeLog® - A Metallurgical Dictionary
Description: SteeLog is a metallurgical dictionary on more than 5,000 terms used in the metals and metalworking industries. You may search for a particular term or click on a letter of the alphabet to view all the ...
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Differences in Water Glycol Hydraulic Fluids Can Have Serious Effects
Description: Fire-resistance has made water-glycol-based hydraulic fluids (WGHFs) the preferred choice for hydraulic applications in the primary metals industries, including aluminum die casting. Their low ...
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Dow Puts More Eggs In PAG Basket
Description: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 VOLUME 7 ISSUE 21 ublishing Co., Inc. Reproduced with permission. ©2007 LNG P Dow Puts More Eggs in PAG Basket By Lisa Tocci OEMs. Pendergast declined to put an exact price on ...
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PAGS Are Rising To The Top Of The Synthetic Market
Description: INDUSTRY FOCUS PAGs are Rising to the Top of the Synthetic Market BY DARYL BEATTY AND MARTIN GREAVES, UCON FLUIDS AND LUBRICANTS, THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY or centuries, lubricants have been utilized ...
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Success with UCON Trident 68 AW Hydraulic Fluid
Description: Case Study Success with UCON Trident 68 AW Hydraulic Fluid Case Study Conversion of a Billet Sawing Unit to UCON Trident 68 AW Hydraulic Fluid in Canada A steel Mill in Canada was using three ...
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Success with UCON™ Trident TM 32 AW Hydraulic Fluid
Description: Case Study ™ TM Success with UCON Trident 32 AW Hydraulic Fluid Case History Conversion of a Barge Dock Hydraulic Crane in Texas City to UCON Trident 32 AW Hydraulic Fluid. The Problem The barge ...
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Creating Clear or Translucent Models
From: Objet, Inc.Description: Not all plastic parts are opaque. For clear parts such as lenses, containers, covers, panels and a variety of other applications, Objet's PolyJet™ Technology offers the advantages of rapid ...
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Caring for Fritted Ware
Description: WILMAD- LABGLASS offers four different porosities that provide filtration speed with good retention. Porosity is controlled during manufacture and each lot is tested. The extra coarse and coarse ...
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Olin Copper Alloy Guide (Metric)
From: Olin BrassDescription: Copper Alloy guide. ...
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The Impact of Conductor Surface Profile (Rrms) on Total Circuit Attenuation in Microstrip and Stripline
From: TaconicDescription: Transmission line attenuation is known to be influenced by conductor surface profile (Rrms), an effect that worsens as frequency increases. Using microstrip transmission lines, copper conductive ...
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What Business Wouldn't Boast About Being Green?
From: Calpipe IndustriesDescription: If your business uses stainless steel, you're using one of the world's most recycled materials. ...
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Chemical Resistance Chart
From: Hayward Flow ControlDescription: The data in the following tables were obtained from numerous sources in the industry. The information is based primarily on the immersion of unstressed strips in the chemicals at ambient temperature ...
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Injection Molding Case Study
From: Control Plastics, Inc.Description: We create a case study for every new project. In this example the critical areas were: nominal wall thickness, boss wall stock thickness relative to nominal wall thickness, potential sinks from ...
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Classification of Aluminum Granules Produced from Waste Foil
From: Kason CorporationDescription: Aluminum is recovered from waste foil by preliminary reduction in hammer mills followed by a furnace operation that burns off attached paper, polyethylene, etc. The furnace product is ground to meet ...
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A Comparative Study of Current and Conversion Efficiency of the METALAST Anodizing Processes With and Without the METALAST Additive
Description: The anodic current efficiency and conversion efficiency of the anodizing process in a traditional electrolyte was determined by weight loss measurements and atomic absorption spectrophotometric ...
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A Comparison Study of the Chemical Dissolution of Aluminum Alloys in Sulfuric Acid Solution with and without METALAST Additive
Description: The effect of the METALAST additive on the chemical dissolution of bare aluminum in anodizing solutions was investigated in this study. The results showed that the dissolution rates of aluminum alloys ...
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Accuracy of Desired Oxide Thickness: Demonstrated Conformance to Desired Oxide Thickness Within a Range of 2-5%
Description: The METALAST process includes the METALAST anodizing solution chemistry and Process Control System (MPCS). The anodizing recipes tailored for various alloys and different anodizing applications can be ...
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Advantages of Constant Current Density Control Over Constant Voltage Control in Aluminum Anodizing
Description: The effects of constant voltage control and constant current density control on the growth of anodic coatings have been studied for aluminum anodizing in sulfuric acid solutions in terms of a ...
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Aluminum Build up Rates Under Type II Anodizing Conditions
Description: A large number of coupons were anodized in two different electrolytes (traditional and METALAST) under Type II conditions to determine the relative aluminum buildup rates. The influence of process ...
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Aluminum Buildup Rate
Description: The aluminum buildup rate is an important aspect in assessing the efficiency of an anodizing process. It will determine the decant rate, and in turn will affect the anodizing costs which are related ...
