'dry contact' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a type of electrical circuit in which two contacts meet, but do not touch, to act as a switch. For example, "The thermostat used a dry contact switch to signal the air conditioning unit to turn on or off."
They demonstrate that the toe pads of the frogs are in direct and dry contact with whatever they are standing on, squeezing out the mucus layer.
Thus some parts of a frog's toe pad are in direct and dry contact with whatever they are standing on.Next, the researchers compared the viscosity of tree-frog mucus with that of water.
Next morning, with blistered heels and dry contact lenses still in my now bloodshot eyes, I could have lounged in the courtyard around the Hotel Particular's shady, intimate pool all day.
This figure has been derived under dry contact conditions.
The samples were interstitial free steels, the tests were done at room temperature, in quasi-static and dry contact conditions.
The antimicrobial behaviour has been studied for E. coli and S. aureus for up to 4 h of "dry" contact.
After the characterization of the coatings, a pin-on-disc tribometer (PoD) was used to simulate the tribological behavior during dry contacts.
This paper introduces a new approach to study gear rattle from a tribo-impact perspective; gear impacts causing rattle are treated as lubricated conjunctions rather than following the conventional assumption of dry contacts.
The dynamics of the compressor blades led to four different arrangements inside the rotor slots while an analysis of the hydrodynamic lubrication established between blade tip and stator wall focused on the oil film thickness evolution to prevent dry contacts.
A first set of experiments, on free contact vibrations, has shown that the measured contact natural frequency is in very good agreement with the theory, and that in dry contacts the contact damping is small and can be reasonably described by an equivalent viscous damping.
Dry contacts tear easily.
