Health and Safety at Work Act

The gauge pressure at which a pressure vessel is maintained in normal operation.

Notification of delivery by a clearing house to a buyer. The notice is initiated by the seller in.

A fatigue fracture feature, often observed in electron micrographs, that indicates the position of the crack front after each succeeding cycle of stress. The distance between striations indicates the advance of the crack front across that crystal during o ...

See transgranular cracking.

Water condensed onto objects at or near the ground, due to the fact that their temperatures have fallen below the dew point temperature of the surrounding air, but not below freezing.

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ACRONYM - non-lubricated compressor.

An individual crystal in a polycrystalline metal or alloy; it may or may not contain twinned regions and subgrains; a portion of a solid metal (usually a fraction of an inch in size), in which the atoms are arranged in an orderly pattern.

A hard, brittle, nonmagnetic intermediate phase with a tetragonal crystal structure, containing 30 atoms per unit cell, space group P42mnm, occurring in many binary and ternary alloys of the transition elements. The composition of this phase in the variou ...

The formation of localized corrosion products scattered over the surface in the form of knoblike mounds called tubercles.

The maximum tension (in kilonewtons) that can be maintained by a braking/locking system in the first layer.

A position where the sum of the deltas of the component legs adds up to.

A charge made for a service performed in a carrier's terminal area.

The stock markets of countries which have a low per head income compared with the developed world.

Same as river gauge.

(IOC)A type of futures or option order which gives the trading crowd one opportunity to take the other.

Marine Accident Investigation Branch

Working Party on Human Element (IACS)

The load created by moisture in the air, including from outside air infiltration and that from indoor sources such as occupants, plants, cooking, showering, etc.