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  2. Land mine - Wikipedia

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    A land mine can be triggered by a number of things including pressure, movement, sound, magnetism and vibration. [43] Anti-personnel mines commonly use the pressure of a person's foot as a trigger, but tripwires are also frequently employed. Because modern anti-vehicle mines usually employ magnetic triggers, they can detonate even if the victim ...

  3. Containment building - Wikipedia

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    The resulting pressure increase inside the containment, which is designed to withstand the pressure, triggers containment sprays ("dousing sprays") to turn on to condense the steam and thus reduce the pressure. A SCRAM ("neutronic trip") initiates very shortly after the break occurs. The safety systems close non-essential lines into the air ...

  4. Slurry wall - Wikipedia

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    The dense but liquid slurry prevents the trench from collapsing by providing outward pressure, which balances the inward hydraulic forces and also retards water flow into the trench. The density of the slurry mix must be carefully monitored and adjusted to produce the correct outward pressure to prevent the trench walls from collapsing.

  5. Boundary layer thickness - Wikipedia

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    The boundary layer thickness, , is the distance normal to the wall to a point where the flow velocity has essentially reached the 'asymptotic' velocity, .Prior to the development of the Moment Method, the lack of an obvious method of defining the boundary layer thickness led much of the flow community in the later half of the 1900s to adopt the location , denoted as and given by

  6. Bitter electromagnet - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of the stacked plate design is to withstand the enormous outward mechanical pressure produced by Lorentz forces due to the magnetic field acting on the moving electric charges in the plate, which increase with the square of the magnetic field strength.

  7. Squeeze flow - Wikipedia

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    During conventional hot plate welding, a successful joining phase depends on proper maintenance of squeeze flow to ensure that pressure and temperature create an ideal weld. Excessive pressure causes squeeze out of valuable material and weakens the bond due to fiber realignment in the melt layer, [ 7 ] while failure to allow cooling to room ...

  8. Transform fault - Wikipedia

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    A transform fault or transform boundary, is a fault along a plate boundary where the motion is predominantly horizontal. [1] It ends abruptly where it connects to another plate boundary, either another transform, a spreading ridge, or a subduction zone. [2] A transform fault is a special case of a strike-slip fault that also forms a plate boundary.

  9. Motorcycle transmission - Wikipedia

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    Above a certain engine speed - when the bike is properly in motion, so the gearbox input shaft is also rotating quickly and so allowing the engine to accelerate further by way of clutch slip - the outward pressure of the weighted friction plates is sufficient that the clutch will enter full lock-up, the same as a conventional plate-clutch with ...