{"id":2032,"date":"2024-10-29T10:24:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T10:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ca-tz.org\/index.php\/glossary\/air-cushion\/"},"modified":"2024-10-15T09:47:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T09:47:11","slug":"air-cushion","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/www.ca-tz.org\/index.php\/aircyclopedia\/air-cushion\/","title":{"rendered":"Air cushion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Compressed air is injected in the air casters underneath an object to reduce the frictional force thereby reducing the (applied) force required to easily move heavy equipment over hard &amp; flat surfaces.&nbsp; With such an arrangement, the heavy object floats effortlessly and completely without vibration on a film of air above the ground. The coefficient of friction is reduced to 0.001, which means, for instance, that a force of only 10 N is required to move a load of 1,000 kg. That in turn means that a single person is able to move a load weighing tons in all directions &ndash; forwards, backwards, sideways &ndash; or turn it around its own axis without the need of crane or forklift. However it uses very large amount of compressed air at @ 100 psig(g) \/ 7 bar(g), for example, to move very large electric transformer, switchgear equipment within the shopfloor of a factory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"528\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ca-tz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-42-1024x528.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ca-tz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-42-1024x528.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ca-tz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-42-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ca-tz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-42-768x396.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ca-tz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-42.png 1153w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"565\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ca-tz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-43-1024x565.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ca-tz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-43-1024x565.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ca-tz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-43-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ca-tz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-43-768x424.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ca-tz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-43.png 1120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compressed air is injected in the air casters underneath an object to reduce the frictional force thereby reducing the (applied) force required to easily move heavy equipment over hard &amp; flat surfaces.\u00a0 With such an arrangement, the heavy object floats effortlessly and completely without vibration on a film of air above the ground. The coefficient&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2032","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ca-tz.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/2032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ca-tz.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ca-tz.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ca-tz.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ca-tz.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/2032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2361,"href":"https:\/\/www.ca-tz.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/2032\/revisions\/2361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ca-tz.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}