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2. Foam peanut - Wikipedia

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   Foam peanuts (made of expanded polystyrene) The inner structure of a foam peanut, magnified 390× on an SEM. Foam peanuts, also known as foam popcorn, packing peanuts, or packing noodles, are a common loose-fill packaging and cushioning material used to prevent damage to fragile objects during shipping.

3. Contact mechanics - Wikipedia

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   Greenwood and Williamson [31] defined a dimensionless parameter called the plasticity index that could be used to determine whether contact would be elastic or plastic. The Greenwood-Williamson model requires knowledge of two statistically dependent quantities; the standard deviation of the surface roughness and the curvature of the asperity peaks.

4. Deflection (engineering) - Wikipedia

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   Deflection (f) in engineering. In structural engineering, deflection is the degree to which a part of a long structural element (such as beam) is deformed laterally (in the direction transverse to its longitudinal axis) under a load.

5. Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) - Wikipedia

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   brail net A type of net incorporating brail lines on a small fishing net on a boat. brailer A device consisting of a net of small-mesh webbing attached to a frame, used aboard fishing vessels for unloading large quantities of fish. brake The handle of the pump, by which it is worked. brass monkey, brass monkey weather

6. Victorian Railways flat wagons - Wikipedia

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   It had tall ends, but the sides were replaced with a braced framework supporting four outward-swinging mesh sheet doors each. Primary traffic was supposed to have been from Colac with a log chipper and storage hopper erected in the station yard, but "something went wrong" and instead the logs were chipped at the sawmill then trucked direct to ...

7. Schoolboy Q - Wikipedia

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   Quincy Matthew Hanley was born October 26, 1986, on a United States Army air base in Wiesbaden, West Germany.His parents—who were both in the military—divorced before he was born, and his mother gave him a surname different from those of either of his parents, choosing one at random. [4]