What do brass screws are used for?
What do you use brass screws for? Brass screws are an extremely useful screw type that can be used across varying applications. The brass make-up of the screw offers a number of useful characteristics...
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Tube and pipe bending machines information
Tube and pipe bending machines are used to bend tubes and pipes to produce finished parts. Tubes are structural, hollow conduits that are used as flow lines for fluids and gases in pneumatic, hydrauli...
What is slowdown? Steel prices has increased by 50% this year
Steel companies’ earnings are sensitive to changes in steel prices. In recent quarters, their earnings have been negatively impacted by falling steel prices. In this part of the series, we’ll look at ...
What is a wheel bearing? Diagnosing a wheel bearing noise
A wheel bearing is exactly what it sounds like: a bearing for a wheel. What’s a bearing? It’s an arrangement of steel balls, held together by a metal ring called a race. There are a wide r...
Design of steel footbridges
Footbridges are needed where a separate pathway has to be provided for people to cross traffic flows or some physical obstacle, such as a river. The loads they carry are, in relation to highway or rai...
What is marine plywood used for?
Marine plywood or just marine ply is used as a building material in marine setting, such as on ships or at docks. Marine ply performs well in humid or wet conditions or anywhere it will receive prolon...
Wood screws vs drywall screws
Wood screws are better than drywall screws for woodworking projects. Drywall screws are made of hardened, brittle steel, and the shaft will often snap during installation, especially if they’re ...
What are the differences between types of shackles?
Shackles are artificial in a spacious variety of types, styles, sizes, and fabrications, and with so many different privileges available, decide the right cumber for the thrust can be flustering. &nbs...
10 coolest car parks in the world
Kansas City Public Library Located in Kansas City, this is a brilliant and one of the most unique parking lots architecture which adored by book lovers. The parking garages...
Attributes of good car park design
Multi-storey car parks are commonly found at railway stations, airports, hospitals and in city centers. They form parts of mixed-use developments, retail and entertainment centers. Car parks should be...
Magnesium and its unique usage
Magnesium oxide, more commonly called magnesia, is a versatile mineral that when used as part of a cement mixture and cast into thin cement panels under proper curing procedures and practices can...
Advantages and disadvantages of rock wool
Rockwool has many advantages It has a large water retention capacity, and also holds sufficient air. It holds a lot of water which gives you an advantage against power or equipment failures. And it al...
Do you actually know about road drainage grate ?
Roads will affect the natural surface and subsurface drainage pattern of a watershed or individual hill slope. Road drainage design has as its basic objective the reduction and/or elimination of energ...
Background and types of protective relay
Background In electrical engineering, a protective relay is a relay device designed to trip a circuit breaker when a fault is detected. The first protective relays were electromagnetic devices, relyin...
Series controllable pitch is also known as CPP
Propellers can be distinguished into two types, namely a Fixed Pitch Propeller (FPP) and a Controllable Pitch Propeller (CPP). The Fixed Pitch Propeller is casted as one block and its shape is optimiz...
What does floor drain mean?
A floor drain is a plumbing fixture that is installed in the floor of a structure, mainly designed to remove any standing water near it. They are usually round, but can also be square or rectangular. ...
The electricity system
About the U.S. Electricity System Today’s U.S. electricity system is a complex network of power plants, transmission and distribution wires, and end-users of electricity. Today, most Americans receive...
Power factor correction & power factor calculation
Description Our analysis and projects can correct the power factor at commercial, industrial, and government facilities, which allows businesses to avoid these power factor charges on the monthly elec...
Galvanized steel reinforcement in concrete
Over a very long period of time (in fact about 60 years), the galvanizing of steel reinforcement has been shown to provide a cost-effective and reliable means of corrosion protection to concrete in a ...
Structural steel
Structural steel is a category of steel used as a construction material for making structural steel shapes. A structural steel shape is a profile, formed with a specific cross section and following ce...
Corrosion protection properties of silane pre-treated powder coated galvanized steel
#mce_temp_url#Silane based products are becoming an interesting material for pre-treatment deposition, because, for the environmental compatibility, they can be used as substitutes of traditional pre-...
What is stair tread and what is the benefit of it?
#mce_temp_url# A stair tread is the horizontal portion of a set of stairs on which a person walks. The tread can be composed of wood, metal, plastic, or other materials. In residential settings, tread...
Stainless steel water tank
With the rapid development of society, stainless steel tank is widely used in hotels, residential buildings, food industry, healthcare industry and electronic industry. Compared with glass or FRP tank...
The 17th China(Guangzhou) International Stainless Steel Industry Exhibition
The 17th China(Guangzhou) International Stainless Steel Industry Exhibition will be opened from 12th June 2016 to 14th June 2016. The annual China(Guangzhou) International Stainless Steel Indust...
The use of trench covers
Trench covers are a vital consideration in street works projects. Their primary role is to protect both members of the public and indeed the workforce from sustaining any injury does to open work...
Point-fixing Glass Curtain Wall
Point fixed glass systems are used most frequently in structural glass curtain walls to create transparency and depth of vision for the occupants. The glass panes are either bolted or clamped with com...
Unitized curtain walls and their limitations
Unitized curtain walls have become the preferred method for enclosing buildings, as more building owners, architects and contractors see the benefits of this type of construction. Unitized systems all...
Why your builder chose flexible copper tube for gas distribution?
I’ve never heard of copper tube for gas distribution, is it new? Not really. Flexible copper tube is commonly used in gas distribution systems…and not just in new homes. For more than 30 y...
Building a warehouse without going broke
Typically, 80 percent of warehouse costs come from eight areas: concrete, steel, earthwork, site utilities, roofing, general conditions, fire protection, and design fees. Focus on controlling costs fo...
PVC celuka foam boards
Potentech PVC Celuka Foam Boards/Sheets are using the Celuka extrusion process. The world-leading equipment and rich experience with this process and this material have enable Potentech to create the ...
Floating wind farms showing signs of a promising future
Not so long ago, erecting a wind turbine farm in deep water would have seemed a futuristic idea, but not anymore. Pilot floating wind turbine projects are showing positive results and they may become ...
Cold-formed steel insurance savings
Cold-formed steel (CFS) is non-combustible, which reduces the risk of property loss during construction and over the life of the structure. Reduced risk of property loss leads to lower insuranc...
Ultra High Strength Galvanized Steel Strands of WISCO Reaching World Advanced Level
Recently, WISCO’s project on Integrated Innovation and Product Development in the Manufacturing Technology of Ultra High Strength Galvanized Steel Strands passed scientific and technological achieveme...
Aluminium and life cycle thinking
Environment using 50 built works from 1895 to 1986, with four historic exemplars being inspected and presented in depth. Twelve twentieth-century award-winning and historically significant ...
Why we recommend aluminum for trucks, trailers & buses
In the commercial road transport industry, aluminum’s success is not only due to its lightness; aluminum applications also provide great design flexibility for manufacturers, lower costs for oper...
Aerospace sheet & coil as supplied products by Shanghai Metal Corporation
Aerospace Sheet & Coil SMC Aluminum offers the following sheet products specially tailored for the aerospace and high-strength market: 2024-T4 SMC Aluminum T-Form Aircraft sh...