Benefit of Staged Cooling In Shrink Fitted Composite Cylinders

To assemble the fulcrum of bascule bridges, a trunnion is immersed into liquid nitrogen so that it can be shrunk fit into the hub. This is followed by immersing the resulting trunnion-hub assembly into liquid nitrogen so that it can be then shrunk fit into the girder. On one occasion in Florida, whe...

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Main Author: Collier, Nathaniel Oren
Format: Others
Published: Scholar Commons 2004
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Online Access:https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/998
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1997&context=etd