The continuing use of cork, a cylinder of tree bark, to stopper wine bottles is in many ways extraordinary – especially since a growing body of scientific research suggests that a crown cap (as on a ...

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accuracy of thread forms, etc. These factors add an additional source of variation. Steel has a property known as fatigue. (See Figure 3.) If the steel has the strength of 200,000 lbs. per sq.