Industrial machinery

Industrial machinery

Of or pertaining to machines or parts of machines that are used in an industrial setting.

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fretting corrosion

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Can take place when two metals are held in contact and subjected to repeated small sliding, relative motions. Other names for this type of corrosion include wear oxidation, ...

fretting

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Wear phenomena taking place between two surfaces having oscillatory relative motion of small amplitude.

free water

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Water droplets or globules in the system fluid that tend to accumulate at the bottom or top of the system fluid depending on the fluid’s specific gravity.

free air

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Air at ambient temperature, pressure, relative humidity, and density.

fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A test where infrared light absorption is used for assessing levels of soot, sulfates, oxidation, nitro-oxidation, glycol, fuel, and water contaminants.

four ball tester

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

This name is frequently used to describe either of two similar laboratory machines, the Four-Ball Wear Tester and the Four-Ball EP Tester. These machines are used to evaluate a ...