Thorough purging of all four bearing seals on each universal joint can help alleviate the possibility of mixing incompatible greases. U-joint cross, broken at a bearing surface. U-joints seldom break off at the bearing surface. It takes a very large shock load to cause this type of failure. It is also very difficult to inspect for this type of failure because they, many times, start as a small crack and progress into a complete failure some time further âdown the roadâ.
A quantity called the slew rate, which is the rate of change of gradient amplitude is usually quoted in evaluating gradient performance and potential physiological effects (e.g. a maximum slew rate of 200 Tm-1s-1).
Skew symmetrical determinant. (Alg.) a determinant in which the elements in each column of the matrix are equal to the elements of the corresponding row of the matrix with the signs changed, as in (1), below.