gasket
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thumb|Some seals and gaskets A gasket is a mechanical seal which fills the space between two or more mating surfaces, generally to prevent leakage from or into the joined objects while under compression. It is a deformable material that is used to create a static seal and maintain that seal under various operating conditions in a mechanical assembly.
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Encyclopedic overview
21 sectionsContents
- Properties
- Types
- Sheet gaskets
- Solid material gaskets
- Spiral-wound gaskets
- Constant seating stress gaskets
- Double-jacketed gaskets
- Kammprofile gaskets
- Fishbone gaskets
- Flange gasket
- Soft cut gasket
- Ring type joint gasket (RTJ gasket)
- Improvements
- Reasons for failure
- Uneven distributed pressing force
- Stress relaxation and torque loss
- Surface not smooth
- Metal Reinforced Gasket
- See also
- References
- Sources
thumb|Some seals and gaskets
A gasket is a mechanical seal which fills the space between two or more mating surfaces, generally to prevent leakage from or into the joined objects while under compression. It is a deformable material that is used to create a static seal and maintain that seal under various operating conditions in a mechanical assembly.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “gasket” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.