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Hello experts! Help needed. I got a relay manual for translation and one of the items there is "Phase Differential". The context is as follows: "These settings program the differential element when the differential feature is in use. This feature consists of three instantaneous overcurrent...

Thank you for such a detailed answer!

Ok. Thank you I got it.

Thank you. You did not mention the conceptual design. Is it omitted in ship designing?

What if we are trying to develop something like a ship or a plane? Or at least an aircraft engine? I mean some sort of heavy machinery... I believe there is a well established practice with well defined stages, is not there?

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Hello everyone! Could you please explain to me what design stages/phases exist? And in what order are they placed? Is it: - Conceptual Design - Preliminary Design - Final Deign What is "detail design" then and how is it different from the Final Design? After googling, I've got a lot...

Thank you! I suspected it was like that. Thanks for help.

Here is the context: "Rapid depressurization event consequences may include an unfiltered discharge of the primary system inventory into the atmosphere as well as damage to equipment outside the primary system from a hot helium jet or from piping whiplash".

Hey everyone! Could you please explain to me what the term "piping whiplash" stands for? It is a very rare combination in the google search, but we have encountered this term in our translations. Thanks

Correct from whose point of view? Yours? Do you want to say that standards are for those who wrote them and everyone else uses other definitions? Or the ASME definitions are incorrect because they do not mathch your (read everybody elses's) definition that you gave in post 7? I do not see ASME...

I looked through ASME B18.12 Glossary of Terms for Mechanical Fasteners. Very simillar to what is given in WIKI. So ASME is nothing to you? It is not an authority at all in the U.S. and can be avoided? What standards do you use? BTW, if I do what you say with our Russian GOST, I will be...

Thanks a ton to everyone. AlephZero: "If you are translating, it might be easier to use the neutral word "fasteners", whcih includes both scews and bolts." Usually when I translate it's a specific thing like a bolt or a stud. My specific question was about the "studded" flange joints. I guess I...

Thank you for your opinion. But concerning the below: nvn: "The distinction between a bolt and a screw is only the thread form..." I got a confusion here. Other sources like ASME and WIKI contradict you. How about this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw See: Differentiation between bolt and...

Thanks a ton! It's always a confusion when I have to translate these "studded" flange joints into English. I've heard that studs are sometimes called "stud bolts" but never thought that the difference is in the use of nuts on them. Thank you for the explanations. I gues the difference is like...