mandrel

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A bar of metal inserted in the work to shape it, or to hold it, as in a lathe, during the process of manufacture; an arbor.

The live spindle of a turning lathe; the revolving arbor of a circular saw. It is usually driven by a pulley.

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A cylindrical rod wrap consists of a specified number turns of fiber on a mandrel of specified size, depending on the fibre characteristics and the desired modal distribution. Source: Internet

A draw bench or arbor press equipped with expandable lead plug is used to shape and smooth the bell and bell neck over a mandrel. Source: Internet

Determination of appropriate mandrel wrap conditions The mandrel diameter and number of turns are chosen to eliminate certain modes in a reproducible way. Source: Internet

In multimode fibre, mandrel wrapping is used to eliminate the effect of "transient loss", the tendency of high order modes to experience higher loss than lower order modes. Source: Internet

Experimentally, one plots the transmitted power from a wrapped fibre into which a uniform modal power distribution has been excited, as a function of mandrel diameter, maintaining a constant number of turns. Source: Internet

He hammers the blank over a bell-shaped mandrel, and butts the seam, using a notching tool. Source: Internet

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