The use of a 'Bridgman-seal' for low-temperature hydraulics

High Pressure Research

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 621-625

  Klotz, S ^a   Padmanabhan, B ^b   Philippe, J ^a   Strassle, Th ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bridgman seal; High pressure; Neutron scattering; Paris Edinburgh press

Indexed keywords

HELIUM; HYDRAULIC RAMS; INERT GASES; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; NEUTRON SCATTERING; PRESSES (MACHINE TOOLS);

BRIDGMAN SEAL; HIGH PRESSURE; LOW TEMPERATURES; PARIS-EDINBURGH PRESS; PRESSURE CELLS;

HYDRAULICS;

EID: 57649231406     PISSN: 08957959     EISSN: 14772299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08957950802526774     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (11)

1. P.W. Bridgman, The Physics of High Pressure, Bell, London 1931.
2. P.W. Bridgman, Proc. Am. Acad. Arts Sci. 44 (1909), p. 201 ibid (1909), p. 221
3. published also in Collected Experimental Papers of P.W. Bridgman, Vol. I, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1964.
4. Bridgman invented the seal while working on his PhD thesis. Results of this work were published in [2], without however revealing details of the seal. The first drawing was apparently published only in 1931 [1].
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9. VX-type Paris-Edinburgh presses exist currently in three different sizes: VX1 (diameter 120mm, capacity 50 tn), VX5 (diameter 180 mm, capacity 130 tn) and VX3 (diameter 230 mm, capacity 200 tn).
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11. G.-M. Rotaru et al., manuscript in preparation.