- Industry: Machine tools
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The Timken Company's expertise is in metallurgy, friction management and power transmission. In using this expertise their goal is to improve the reliability and efficiency of machinery all around the world.
The resistance to indentation. This is measured by the relative resistance of the material to an indentor point of any one of a number of standard hardness testing instruments.
Industry:Machine tools
Constant friction created during the operation of a dynamic seal.
Industry:Machine tools
The amount of internal clearance in a bearing. Fit can also be used to describe shaft and housing size and how they relate to the bore or outside diameter.
Industry:Machine tools
Bearing which positions shaft against axial movement in both directions.
Industry:Machine tools
Bearing so designed or mounted as to permit axial displacement between shaft and housing.
Industry:Machine tools
A series of small axial burns caused by an electric current passing through the bearing while it is rotating.
Industry:Machine tools
Wear characterized by the removal of fine particles from mating surfaces. Fretting is caused by vibratory or oscillatory motion of limited amplitude between contacting surfaces. (See False Brinelling. )
Industry:Machine tools
A term usually applied to the last machining operation on any surface of a bearing, such as "Finish O. D. , " "Finish bore, " etc.
Industry:Machine tools
