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Choosing a Balustrade System for a Commercial Building
Balustrades are a prominent architectural feature, but on a commercial construction project, their specification involves much more than deciding what...
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Cold Solder Joint – Symptoms, Causes and How to Identify It
A cold solder joint is a defective solder connection in which proper wetting and bonding between the solder and the...
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Bulk density of powders – why is it measured?
Bulk density describes how much mass of a bulk material is contained in a given volume. For powders and granules,...
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Neodymium vs Ferrite Magnets – When Does NdFeB Make Sense?
Permanent magnets should not be selected by pull force alone. Neodymium iron boron (NdFeB) is usually the strongest choice when...
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Compressed air in business: why can it be so expensive?
Compressed air often looks like a simple plant utility. There is a valve, a hose, an air blow gun, a...
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What uses the most electricity in a production site?
A company looks at the electricity bill and starts searching for one guilty machine. That is a natural reaction. In...
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EN 50549 grid connection requirements: inverters and renewables
EN 50549 may appear on an inverter datasheet, a battery storage document or a grid-connection file. It is tempting to...
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How surface roughness affects machining?
Surface roughness is often treated as the final result of machining. It is measured after the operation, recorded in the...
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Thermal insulation requirements: halls, warehouses and industrial buildings
For a house, energy-efficiency guidance is often reduced to a short list of U-values: wall, roof, floor, window. A warehouse,...
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Reaction to fire classes for building materials: what do they mean?
A datasheet may show A1, A2-s1,d0 or B-s2,d0. A product description may say “non-combustible”, “limited combustibility”, “fire-rated” or “self-extinguishing”. To...
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