Fluid Sealing

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Seals — Machine Elements of Increasing Importance

   1. Seals — Machine Elements of Increasing Importance

      • E. Ioannides

      Pages 1-2

3. Lip Seals

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 3-3

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   2. Understanding The Sealing Mechanism Of The Radial Lip Seal For Rotating Shafts

      • Leslie A. Horve

      Pages 5-19

   3. Computation and Measurement of the Sealing Contact Stress and its Role in Rotary Lip Seal Design

      • A. Gabelli, F. Ponson, G. Poll

      Pages 21-39

   4. On The Sealing Mechanism Of Lip Seals Containing Microundulations

      • Richard F. Salant

      Pages 41-53

   5. Dynamic Mapping of Rotary Lip Seal Lubricant Films by Fluorescent Image Processing

      • G. Poll, A. Gabelli, P. G. Binnington, J. Qu

      Pages 55-77

4. Static Seals

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. Duty Limits Of Sheet Gaskets In Steam Joints

      • B. S. Nau, M. D. Reddy

      Pages 81-107

   3. Fundamental Study Of Static Sealing Characteristics Of Solidified Oils At High Pressure

      • Fujio Hirano, Noriyuku Kuwano, Nobuyoshi Ohno

      Pages 109-120

   4. Sealing Of Large Size Vessels

      • Michel Lefrancois

      Pages 121-132

   5. Low Pressure System High Integrity Seal Concept The Low Stress Spiral Wound Gasket

      • Kurt Allen, Gary Briggs

      Pages 133-140

   6. Water And Steam Tightness Tests of Expanded Graphite Static Gaskets for Nuclear Power Plant Steam Generators

      • J-C. Vignaud, P. Digat, H. Nowak

      Pages 141-155

   7. EDF Approach To The Design And Maintenance Of Leaktight Bolted Assemblies

      • Rizo José

      Pages 157-163

   8. Selco Seal

      • J. Paterson, M. Lowry

      Pages 165-192

   9. Development of Test Procedures For Fire Resistance Qualification of Gaskets

      • Michel Derenne, J. R. Payne, Luc Marchand, Andre Bazergui

      Pages 193-207

   10. Recent Developments In Elevated Temperature Gasket Evaluation

       • Luc Marchand, André Bazergui, Michel Derenne

       Pages 209-223

   11. Testing Of Gaskets In A Din Flange Before And After Exposure At Elevated Temperature

       • Alfred Hirschvogel

       Pages 225-234

   12. Development Of Test Facility To Characterize Static Seals At Temperature Up To 800°C.

       • T. Ledauphin, Y. Birembaut, E. Inghels, E. Poulin

       Pages 235-246

   13. Non-Circular Pressure Vessel Flanges New Design Methods

       • Adolf E. Blach

       Pages 247-265

With this 13th in the series of International Conferences on Fluid Sealing these meetings move into their third decade. To be precise it is now thirty-one years since BHRA, as it then was, convened, with no little trepidation, the first of these Conferences in Ashford, England. The massive set of proceedings now occupies a considerable length of shelf in my bookcase and represents a tremendous technological resource - over 400 separate papers. It is interesting that I seem to refer most often to the earlier volumes, probably most of all to the very first. Perhaps this is because this volume marks the beginning of "historic times", AD 0, for fluid sealing technology. There were of course important publications in this field even before 1961. A notable example is the seminal work of my predecessor at BHRA, Dr D. F. Denny, whose researches on reciprocating fluid power seals, "The sealing mechanism of flexible packings", was published in 1947 by a long since defunct government department, the Ministry of Supply. Another notable source is the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers' 1957 Conference on Lubrication and Wear. However, there is more to fluid st". aling technology than just tribology, as we must now call lubrication and wear, interest in static seals has really come to the fore in recent years - witness the large batch of papers dealing with this subject in the present Conference.

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• BHR Group Ltd, Cranfield, UK

  B. S. Nau

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