- Industry: Aviation
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Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc. (ASA) develops and markets aviation supplies, software, and books for pilots, flight instructors, flight engineers, airline professionals, air traffic controllers, flight attendants, aviation technicians and enthusiasts. Established in 1947, ASA also provides ...
A method of forming sheet metal by using heated dies of metal or ceramic.
Industry:Aviation
A method of forming sheet metal parts by using a soft-faced hammer to shrink or stretch the metal. The metal may be formed over forming blocks or dies, or it may be shaped by hammering it into a sandbag.
Industry:Aviation
A method of forming sheet metal. A disk of metal is clamped in a lathe in front of a male die whose shape is that of the inside of the part to be spun. The lathe is turned at a high speed, and the metal is forced against the die with a wooden tool.
Industry:Aviation
A method of forming threads on a bolt or rod by rolling the material to be threaded between grooved rollers. No material is removed when the threads are rolled, as it is when they are cut.
Industry:Aviation
A method of grounding an electrical circuit by connecting all of the wires that go to ground to a single point on the equipment chassis. When single-point grounding is used, there is very little current flow in the chassis, and the interference from magnetic fields in the chassis is avoided.
Industry:Aviation
A method of guidance used on some missiles that causes the missile to seek and home on a source of infrared radiation.
Industry:Aviation
A method of hardening and strengthening metal that cannot be hardened by heat treatment. When the metal is hammered, rolled, bent, or stretched, it becomes work hardened.
Industry:Aviation
A method of hardening metals that cannot be hardened by heat treatment. Copper, some aluminum alloys, and low-carbon steel cannot be hardened by heat treatment, but they can be hammered, rolled, pulled, or bent to change their grain structure enough that they become hard.
Industry:Aviation
A method of hardening steel by heating it red-hot and then quenching it in a bath of oil. Oil cools the steel more slowly than either water or brine and gives it a uniform hardness.
Industry:Aviation
A method of heat transfer by direct contact in which heat energy moves from a higher energy level to a lower level by direct contact. A hand touching a hot stove will be burned because heat energy from the stove is transferred by conduction.
Industry:Aviation
