ring seal in a sentence
Examples
- For the past few months, engineers have had to contend with woodpecker damage and critical O-ring seals that were singed.
- An exhaust leak from an O-ring seal in a right booster motor was blamed for the fatal 1986 Challenger accident.
- Disintegration of the entire vehicle began after an O-ring seal in its right Aerodynamic forces promptly broke up the orbiter.
- The cold caused O-ring seals to fail in the right solid-fuel booster rocket and allowed blazing hot gas to leak.
- The repairs were ordered after O-ring seals in booster nozzles from two previous launchings were singed slightly by rocket exhaust gases.
- Engineers suspect the problem is related to the procedure used to inject insulating putty into the gaps around the O-ring seals.
- After a series of hearings, the commission reported four months later that an O-ring seal leaked in the right booster rocket.
- The overnight freeze caused O-ring seals in the right solid-fuel booster rocket to deteriorate, and hot gases leaked from the joint.
- Then hot rocket gas seeped through thermal insulation surrounding the O-ring seals in the solid-fuel rocket boosters of Atlantis and Discovery.
- Aluminium oxides from the burned solid propellant sealed the damaged joint, temporarily replacing the O-ring seal before flame passed through the joint.