Sentence examples for weather strip from inspiring English sources
noun
A strip of wood, rubber, or other material applied to an outer door or window so as to cover the joint made by it with the sill, casings, or threshold, in order to exclude rain, snow, cold air, etc.
The glass cover was sealed to the casing using a weather strip and silicone rubber all around.
Through the numerical experiments, it is confirmed that the topologically optimized weather strips show fatigue lives much longer than the initial weather strip design.
One of the major performances required for weather strip is the high durability against the frequent opening and closing operations of automobile door.
Furthermore, for the sake of the fatigue life enhancement, the local region within the weather strip cross-section which is vulnerable to the fatigue failure is designed by means of a density-based topology optimization method.
In this paper, the fatigue life of automobile weather strip manufactured with EPDM rubber is predicted by making use of the nonlinear finite element analysis and an ε N curve of EPDM rubber.
Why not use it to weather strip your windows?
Older wooden windows perform very well when properly weatherized — this includes caulking, insulation and weather stripping — and assisted by the addition of a good storm window.
Molded into sheets, it is used in gaskets, weather stripping, and vibration-damping materials.
At dusk they stood on their porch whacking each other with lengths of weather stripping.
So be sure to apply weather stripping and keep the windows caulked every year.
EPDM is employed in flexible seals for automobiles, wire and cable insulation, weather stripping, tire sidewalls, hoses, and roofing film.
