The Carbon River is glacier-fed, and the canyon is a mess of loosely agglomerated ash and friable andesite rock from the volcano. People are injured and killed somewhat regularly on the Carbon river, because sunshine on the Carbon glacier in the afternoon causes rapid melting and subsequent...
In the rocket biz we would braze shaped, ovalized tubes into header pipes to form interesting bits of gear like rocket nozzles and combustion chambers. Welding would likely work too, if you design the joint for weld access. As LI said, no reason that the oring has to be used in a round joint...
MoWie Steel (sounds like Bowie, of knife and/or rock star fame).
MoWow Steel
MoWie Wowee ... hmm, might be already trademarked for certain organic products...
My dental hygienist puts fluoride varnish on my teeth at the end of my tooth cleaning ordeals. The stuff sticks to my teeth and stays there for several hours, or until I eat or drink or brush my teeth.
According to...
Viton/FKM chemistry is...weird. The base polymer for FKM is not well controlled, and the chemistry for Viton A is a vinyl backbone which can be problematic with oxygen rich environments and high temperatures. People specify Viton or FKM for high temperature water and steam, when both...
It's more of a time at temperature thing - polyester in cold or lukewarm water will hold up for a long time and is used as a wet filter fabric in those conditions, but as the temperature climbs it can suffer hydrolysis more and more rapidly. 180F is the general long-term use limit in submerged...
Yes, a higher tensile strength will mean more spring back. Fully annealed wire will spring back less than 1/2 hard or full hard or spring temper wire. As Ed said, stainless wire also springs back more than carbon steel wire due to differences in work hardening between the two materials.
"Are tax dollars being used to supplment Katy Perry and other celebrities who are paying to ride into 'space'?"
I don't know, are they?
Virgin Space has been doing tourism launches as well. I doubt much in the way of tax dollars, other than FAA, and local and state taxes to maintain airspace...
Taicho, it's possible if only using the HART or similar digital communication over the loop, rather than the analog value of the current (standard 4-20ma output)
Sounded to me like the OP wants to measure a flowing pressure drop (total pressure loss) across an open or partially open valve, i.e. a Cv curve. But, as Wil said, you need to be more specific about what testing you are contemplating.
It is still tricky to measure with nitrogen and then...
"I have my doubts as well, which is why I will continue to QUIETLY sit back, watch, and wait."
Except for the QUIETLY part?
Nothing Musk and his team have done is innovative, it is derivative, at least in the rocket biz. Tesla has done some cool stuff, but they were doing that before Musk...
"How many of these projects were funded by the US government? Here is another collapsing. It seems that there has been a massive collapse of the global green energy initiatives once DOGE started looking under the covers."
The one you posted is in Wales, which despite what our president might...
You didn't read the article, his numbers are inflation adjusted. Your quoted numbers are for manned lunar missions (including ground support), not payload delivery to LEO. He's using the cost of just the first and second Apollo stages (boosters), not the much more complex and costly Command...
Not sure why the cylinder needs to be stainless steel, but if it's for corrosion resistance more than strength, there are alternatives. An alternative corrosion resistant material would be glass tubing. It's formed to very tight (.001 mm) axial i.d. tolerances (shrink fit from the melt over...
A sketch of the seal geometry might help.
That said, the seal (presumably made from an elastomer?) will likely deform from the applied hydro test pressure and the internal air will equalize to be substantially the same as the hydro pressure.
