Bolts Selection Guide: Types, Features, Applications - GlobalSpec
A bolt is a type of threaded hardware fastener that is used to position two workpieces in specific relation to each other. Bolts come in several configurations for their application and specification variances. Since the terms "bolt" and "screw" were in use …
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Screws Selection Guide: Types, Features, Applications - GlobalSpec
Screw Features. Several integral features are available in screws, which increase their versatility. Breakaway screws have a hollowed shank that greatly reduces their shear load. This is useful in mechanical components which may experience overload, or in accident regulation.
Fiber Optic Cables Information - GlobalSpec
Fiber optic cables: How they work. Video Credit: Engineerguy / CC BY-SA 4.0 Information, such as analog voice signals, is translated into digital signals. The digital information is then sent bit-by-bit (1's and 0's) by a laser; modern lasers can send …
Accelerometers Selection Guide: Types, Features, Applications
Accelerometers are transducers designed to measure acceleration forces. Accelerometers measure proper — also known as g-force — acceleration, which can be simply defined as "acceleration felt as weight." As its alternative terminology implies, proper acceleration is measured in g's. The "g" unit ...
Tubing Selection Guide: Types, Features, Applications - GlobalSpec
Tubing or tubes are hollow cylinders used for fluid transport, structural applications, or electrical sheathing. They are usually cylindrical in shape, but may have round, rectangular, or square cross-sections. Tubing is specified in terms of outside diameter (OD) …
Level Sensors Selection Guide: Types, Features, Applications
Example of point level measurement. Video Credit: madisonsensors . Continuous level sensors measure liquid or dry material levels within a specified range and provide outputs which continuously indicate the level. They are more sophisticated devices than point level sensors because they measure over a range of levels instead of at one point to let the user know the exact amount of a substance.
Impellers Selection Guide: Types, Features, Applications - GlobalSpec
Impellers (also spelled impellors or impellars) are rotating devices designed to alter the flow and/or pressure of liquids, gases, and vapors.Impellers consist of various vanes — often blade-shaped — arranged around a short central shaft. When the shaft and vanes rotate, they suck in fluids or gases and impel them out the other side.
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GlobalSpec Product Announcement for IHS Standards Store – Engineering Standards Source - The IHS Standards Store provides access to standards, regulations and codes from professional societies, trade associations, international and national standardization regulatory bodies, governments and military sources.
Globe Valves Selection Guide: Types, Features, Applications
Design Tip: Take care to not screw the valve shaft too far because there is a possibility it could damage the seating surface. For quick-acting globe stop valves, the stem is placed so the disk closes in the same direction as the fluid flow. Closing the valve is impeded by the kinetic energy of the media but opening is faster and easier.