Joint (sealing)
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One joint is a device ensuring it, avoiding the escapes of ( or ) with one .
Most of the time, the joint is a part of rubber or of synthetic flexible having the same form as the internal format pipes (in general of cylindrical symmetry) but of dimension (ray) higher. The flexible joint is crushed at the time of the tightening of the connection; it is this which ensures the contact on all the circumference of the joint with the connection.
One uses also sometimes metal joints, facts in one to tend, like . It is then of the joint (crushing) which ensures the contact (case of the stopper of drain of one convey). In plumbing, the joint fibre undergoes a light swelling at the time of its first contact with water, which enables him to occupy all space available, thus ensuring the sealing of .
The material must make it possible to resist and with of the fluid, like with its . The joint undergoes a natural ageing, and it is necessary to change it at the end of a certain time, or on a purely preventive basis at the time of each disassembling of the connection.
Types of joint in mechanics
- flat joint
- O ring
- lip seal
- cylinder head gasket
Construction (civil engineering)
In the construction industry, a joint is a granulous solid (standard ) being used to ensure the sealing enters of the elements like tiling, of or of .
