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	Flywheels Researchers are developing ways to ensure that power-packed flywheel-battery systems stay safely contained.		Spin Testing Systems allow one to understand the stresses and failure modes of high speed devices in a safe environment.
	Ensuring Spin Test Safety. Spin testing cautions for dealing with high energy parts.		Anatomy of an Accident. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, Vol 115. No 12.
	The Spin Doctor. AEROSPACE TESTING INTERNATIONAL, November 2005.		Copyright © 2000 IEEE. Published Conference Article on Crack Detection

Because many of the hazards associated with centrifugal stress testing of rotation components (spin test systems) are not known, users must take precautions. The kinetic energy of typical turbo-machinery components is very high at burst speed, and the fragments of a disk can do serious damage to structures and people.

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