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Hydrostatic Bearings

Designing hydrostatic bearings is more complex than for self-acting types because of the greater number of components requiring design decisions.

Captive Nuts
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Captive, or self-retained, nuts are multiple-threaded fasteners used on many thin materials.

Good Solid Modeling, Bad FEA

Solid modeling is great for visualizing ideas but it's often misapplied in finite-element analysis.

Cast Iron
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Cast irons include many metals having a wide variety of properties.

The attraction of Ferrofluid Bearings

Magnetic-fluid technology brings compact, low-friction, self-contained bearings capable of speeds to 30,000 rpm.

Joining Plastic

There are several techniques for joining plastic parts.

DC Motors - Your Complete DC Motor Drive Systems

With the largest consolidated portfolio of miniature and micro motor drive system technologies, MicroMo specializes in the design...

Classical Multiple V-Belts

In addition to the flat leather and fabric belts used in belt drives of the early 1900s, industry used hemp or wire rope running in grooved pulleys.

Putting The Right Spin On Rotational-Molding Designs
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New developments let rotational molding compete with injection or blow molding.

Shoulder-Fillet Stress Calculations Clarified

The authors of "Shoulder-fillet stresses finesse" clarify stress-calculation procedures.

HSLA Steel

Those steel alloys known as high-strength low-alloy (HSLA) steels provide increased strength-to-weight ratios over conventional low-carbon steels for only a modest price premium.

Webcast presenting the basics of the Direct Gear Design

In order to stay competitive, you must continue to create great products faster and cheaper.

Spring Clips
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Typical spring clips are self-retaining, one-piece fasteners that slip into a mounting hole or onto a flange or panel edge.

Vacuum pumps
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In principle, industrial vacuum pumps are merely compressors run with the inlet attached to the vacuum system and the outlet open to exhaust.

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