Sealing expansion joints
Introduction
The term joint can refer to:
• - to a governing board, the name of various historical and contemporary institutions in Spain and Latin America;
- to a military junta, a government made up of the military;
- to a First Meeting;
- to a First Meeting (Buenos Aires Subway) "First Meeting (Buenos Aires Subway)");
- to a First National Government Board of Chile;.
• - to a Board of Directors or board of directors, the highest collective authority of a company or organization;
• - to a joint, an element that brings two pieces into contact, both to join and separate;
- to a sealing gasket, a component of various machines and pneumatic elements that ensure the sealing of water, fuel or lubricant tanks;
- to an expansion joint, one of the elastic elements that are inserted into large architectural structures to avoid fragmentation due to their expansion and contraction due to temperature changes; The gasket separates the pieces to avoid uncontrolled breakage;
- to a joint "Joint (construction)"), the space left between the surfaces of the ashlars or bricks.
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