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Mechanical fasteners, adhesives, or both are used to join composites.

Plain bearing design may be simple or complex.

Seal selection is often an imprecise and time-consuming process, involving numerous compromises.

Water vapor is contained in high-pressure air.

Simple control tasks can be candidates for pneumatic, electropneumatic, and hybrid pneumatic controls.

Polyamide-imides are engineering thermoplastics characterized by excellent dimensional stability, high strength at high temperature, and good impact resistance.

Valves are essential elements for controlling fluid system performance.

When using industrial equipment such as automated drill heads, positioning slides, and transfer conveyors, precise speed and feed control are required more often than not.

Fluid-handling devices are not basically concerned with the modulation of power, but only with the movement of fluid.

A built-in locking feature develops full locking action as soon as these nuts are engaged with the bolt threads.

All wire rope and mechanical cable are fabricated from individual wires helically twisted into a strand.

Fiber reinforcements dominate composites.

Thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) have two big advantages over the conventional thermoset (vulcanized) types -- processing ease and speed.

Electronic equipment requiring dc power must adjust the ac input to a usable level with transformers or switching transistors and use a rectifier stage to convert the ac to dc.