Getting the best fastener can often be an afterthought on a major design project, and this can lead to problems. For example, a Fortune 500 manufacturer of medium- and heavy-duty trucks were having ...

Grease application is a necessary component to ensure product friction and less deterioration from surfaces rubbing together. There are a variety of grease additives, including but not limited to anti ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. We are only aware of many of our organs when they go wrong. From day to day, you can’t feel what your tonsils or your ...

A gall results from wear caused by adhesion between sliding surfaces. When a material galls, some of it is pulled with the contacting surface, especially if there is a large amount of force ...

A new line of stainless steel compression fitting nuts may virtually eliminate the problems of inconsistent remakes or product galling during the assembly of stainless steel tubing systems. A new line ...

How does one estimate the number of tiny, cryptic “galling” insects without finding and describing every one (a task that could take centuries of taxonomic work)? According to a new paper in ...