My Popular Articles
- Types and Designs of Shaft Keys
- Shaft Couplings - Types
- Overhead Travelling Crane
- V Belts
- Types of Flexible Coupling – Bibby Resilient Couplings
- Hydrodynamic Bearings
- Preloading of Bearings - Part 1
- Types of Gears and Classification of Gears
- Preloading of Bearings - Part 2
- Fasteners - their Need and Types
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Guide to Steel Making Processes and Technology
Steel provides life to the designs of humanity. It has remained an invincible metal through the centuries, but how is it refined, and recycled? What is the difference between cast iron and stainless, and what are the primary alloys of steel?Published on October 30, 2011 to Mechanical Engineering
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Learn More about Heat Pumps
Nature created mankind, but with the advancement of technology, man is now trying to recreate nature. This may have its own advantages and disadvantages, but nowhere is this struggle more evident than in the field of environmental control for our inhabited...Published on October 30, 2011 to Mechanical Engineering
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Toolmaking and Precision Machining
Toolmaking and precision machining are the need of the day, but recent advances in technology demand ever higher precision and accuracy in order to reach the desired limit. This article will serve as a guide for toolmaking and precision machining articles...Published on October 26, 2011 to Mechanical Engineering
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The Essential Guide to Hardware
This guide to hardware deals with industry-standard items of which, though common, the selection of can make or break the repair, upgrade, or maintenance of essential equipment. How much do you know about the technical standards for the fasteners, bearings...Published on October 20, 2011 to Mechanical Engineering
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Heat Treatment and Metal Properties
This guide will help you learn about the various methods of heat treatment and measurement aspects of the mechanical properties of metals. Topics involved include the hardening, softening (annealing), and tempering processes carried out on critical...Published on September 29, 2011 to Mechanical Engineering
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Dye Penetrant Inspection Procedures
This article deals with the dye penetrant non-destructive testing method, its advantages and disadvantages.Published on July 27, 2011 to Mechanical Engineering
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Lubricant Properties for a Gearbox – Part 2
This article deals with the properties in a lubricant needed for the satisfactory performance of a gearbox. The various characteristics of the lubricant are discussed in detail here.Published on June 28, 2011 to Mechanical Engineering
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What is Finite Element Analysis or the Finite Element Method?
This article is written to give a basic insight on what Finite Element Analysis (FEA) or Finite Element Method (FEM) means. There is a lot of hype about the areas of application for which FEA can be applied. This article should throw some...Published on December 27, 2010 to Mechanical Engineering
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Gear Manufacturing Methods
Gears play a prominent role in mechanical power transmission. Manufacturing of gears is a very interesting area involving various methodologies and varies with the type of gears to be produced. This article describes the various methods of manufacturing...Published on December 27, 2010 to Mechanical Engineering
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Selection of Rolling Element Bearings – Part 1
This article deals with the important terminologies we need to know about for the selection of a rolling element bearing. These terms like axial and radial loads, Static Load carrying capacity, Dynamic Load carrying capacity, etc are explained in detail...Published on May 4, 2010 to Mechanical Engineering