O-rings and guide rings are both used on hydraulic cylinders, but they handle different tasks. O-rings are often the first choice for engineers because of their flexibility and performance in static ...

The space shuttle Challenger exploded and broke up over the Atlantic Ocean 35 years ago today, a national tragedy that played out on live TV 73 seconds after launch. The images and video of the ...

What is an input/output (I/O) ring, and why should I care about it? If you’re a system-on-chip (SoC) designer, you had better know the answer to that question. SoCs are the darlings of the ...

If you like drooling, inserting things into the mouth, and/or a variety in your gag collection, O rings for you! Here are some quick tips and ten products I put under the microscope. They’re pretty ...

Nothing beats the feeling of rolling a Dodge Ram pickup with a freshly compound-turbocharged Cummins diesel engine out of the shop and onto the street for the first time and experiencing the reward ...

In this paper the behavior of an O-ring made of NBR rubber was investigated under extreme conditions. The effect of the extreme initial compression, operating pressure and extreme temperature ...

For more than 60 years, engineers specifying seals and customers using them have accepted the arbitrary rule that the maximum amount O-rings will swell in most applications is a 25% change in volume.