Category: B
Blow Molded Pallet
Definition: What is a Blow Molded Pallet? A pallet that has been made by heating a plastic material and extruding it into tubing is known as the blow-molded pallet. A section is cut to the desired length to create a parison. The parison is defined as a partially shaped mass of molten glass. It is …
Bridge Crane
Definition: What is a Bridge Crane? Called often also an overhead crane, a bridge crane consists of parallel runways with a traveling bridge spanning the gap. The crane’s lifting component, known as the hoist, travels along the bridge. If the bridge is rigidly supported on two or more legs running on a fixed rail at …
Belt Conveyor
Definition: What is a Belt Conveyor? One of the basic tools in material handling industry, belt conveyors are most commonly used in transportation of bulk materials (grain, salt, coal, ore, sand, etc.). Belt conveyor systems consist of two or more pulleys (a.k.a. drums). An endless loop of carrying medium—the conveyor belt— rotates about them. To …
Yield Strength
Definition: What is Yield Strength? A most important calculation in the design of warehouses (both as buildings and as internal structures), yield strength or yield point of a material is defined in engineering and materials science as the stress at which a material begins to deform plastically. This applies especially to all kinds of beams …
