Do you think that porcelain and ceramic tile are essentially the same? Well, you may be surprised to find that they are not. Although both are manufactured of similar ingredients using similar processes, there are some important ...
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Engineers intrigued by the toughness of mollusc shells, which are composed of brittle minerals, have found inspiration in their structure to make glass 200 times stronger than a standard pane. Counter-intuitively, the glass is ...
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FOR MANY years of his life, Ho Chong Choai watched his father Ho Kian Chuan labour over glass and frames in a small business with four workers in Kampung Pantai Malacca. Over 35 years, Chong Choai, now the managing director of SecuGlass ...
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Exterior changes to the 2014 Hyundai Elantra range are as limited as the suspension modifications are extensive. A first facelift for the fifth-generation small sedan from South Korea, which is now three years old, the ‘Series ...
Used in oil and gas transmission pipe, often referred toughness is the Charpy V-notch impact energy test, or sample the plastic fracture morphology percentage share of the entire sample to measure the fracture area. Charpy absorbed energy ...
Cold Hard Facts: 5 Key Criteria for Selecting Low-Temperature ValvesBob Cadwell, Business Development Manager, ASCO A White Paper from ASCO Numatics Specifying and consulting engineers, engineering houses, original equipment ...
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Most of the products we use today, particularly components of large products, are made using a process called injection molding. It requires the use of mold cavities into which materials in molten state are poured and solidified to form ...
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The ConSole mounting system designed by manufacturer Renusol remains impeccably stable after 15 years of use. This is the conclusion of the test report drawn up by the renowned Kunststoff-Institut Lüdenscheid, which found that ...
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Charles Bostick of Seele Sedak & Co. used the final day of Glass Performance Days (GPD), which took place last week in Tampere, Finland, to detail the latest in glass technology and projects completed over the last two years. He noted that ...
There are a wide range of applications that implement stainless steel pipes right from the commercial offices, to the domestic regions, to automotive industry. This material has been very useful and effective in many industries, and if it ...
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In the future, your smartphone might be made out of concrete, no seriously. A group of researchers working together from the US, Finland, Germany, and Japan who work in conjunction with the US Department of Energy have developed a method of ...
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May 13, 2013 — High-level simulations reveal that plastic deformation in super-resilient alloys is governed by atomic zones with characteristic lengths. Quick-cooling molten atoms give metal alloys a glassy, or random, atomic ...
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Simulations reveal that the formation of some glassy materials is like the setting of a bowl of gelatin. Gelatin sets by forming a solid matrix full of random, liquid-filled pores — much like a saturated sponge. It turns out that a ...
With the vast number of machines and equipment that has been invented over the years since the industrial revolution, hydraulic cylinders have become a part of our lives and most people don’t even realize it. These can be small parts, ...
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