A long time ago (1998) I presented a paper on flange springs at a Fluid Sealing Association symposium. This photo was taken when we put the flanges in a massive temperature swing (from the oven to dry ice!) to demonstrate the benefit of flange live load with a loss of seating stress.
When I was creating the abstract for the paper I wanted to use actual flanges and not focus on gasket specimens like most paper did on the subject. I also tried to make my "powerpoint" look cool ~ of course that was cool for 1998 where no one could of imagined the size of files today.
Here is the paper.
When I was creating the abstract for the paper I wanted to use actual flanges and not focus on gasket specimens like most paper did on the subject. I also tried to make my "powerpoint" look cool ~ of course that was cool for 1998 where no one could of imagined the size of files today.
Here is the paper.