Examples for
Industrial Measures & Standards
Industrial measures constitute a wide array of concepts that cover standard sizes and measurements for objects used throughout industry for many purposes. Use Wolfram|Alpha to explore concepts such as diameter, temperature, voltage, area, volume and others used to define a set of standard measures, depending on the object's purpose.
Investigate properties of a specific wire gauge from a number of different gauge systems.
Get information about a wire gauge:
Specify wire gauge, material and length:
View and perform computations with properties of threaded fasteners, like diameter, threads per inch and other attributes.
Get dimensions of a screw or bolt:
Get a specific measurement of a fastener:
Investigate the gauges used for hypodermic needle sizes, which can be compared to other gauges used by wires, drills and meshes.
Look up the specifications of a needle size:
Find out the typical use for a needle diameter:
Convert the area of coverage to the required volume of paint or primer, and vice versa.
Compute the area covered by a volume of paint:
Compute the volume of paint required to cover an area:
Determine a resistor's resistance based on color codes or obtain the color code for a specified resistance.
Calculate the color code for a resistor:
Compute resistance from resistor color codes:
Find dimensions and other information for standard knitting needle sizes.
Get information about knitting needle sizes:
Discover the thickness, gamma ray shielding and mass of various steel sheet gauges.
Look up a sheet metal gauge:
Compute using a property of a gauge:
Study a diverse collection of drill bits, which includes a variety of sizes and gauges.
Get the dimensions of a drill bit:
Find out the diameter of a drill bit:
Specify the size of the sieve mesh opening and find the nearest standard size as well as the nearest gauges used in industry for comparison.
Get information about a sieve:
Determine the needle size required to pass through a mesh:
Obtain a wide variety of properties for many materials, including density, specific heat, thermal conductivity and emissivity.
Get information about a bulk material:
Compute properties of a stockpile:
Obtain a complete set of dimensions and the storage capacity for a given freight container.
Find out about a container:
Look up a specific attribute of a container:
Look up physical characteristics of tires with a given size designator.
Get information about a car or light truck tire size:
Get information about a bicycle tire size:
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Use the diameter specification, and optionally the length, to determine additional properties of pipes.
Get dimensions for a nominal pipe size:
Specify length:
Explore many mechanical and miscellaneous properties for a given diameter of rope.
Find characteristics of a rope:
Look up a property of a rope:
Query for properties of a battery, which can include names, voltage, capacity and dimensions.
Get information about a type of battery:
Request a property of a battery:
Determine the nominal and actual dimensions of standardized lumber by specifying a board size or find the volume of lumber obtained from a log by using one of several formulas.
Specify a basic softwood lumber size:
Determine the volume of lumber from a log of known size:
Convert gas mark scales to conventional cooking temperatures.