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2. Sensing floor - Wikipedia

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   A sensing floor is a floor with embedded sensors.Depending on their construction, these floors are either monobloc (e.g. structures made of a single frame, carpets). [1] [2] [3] or modular (e.g. tiled floors, floors made of stripes of sensors).

3. Interface, Inc. - Wikipedia

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   Interface was founded in 1973 by Ray Anderson, whose decade and a half in the carpet trade had led him to create one of the first U.S. manufacturers of carpet tiles, also known as modular carpet or carpet squares. Carpet tiles, which originated in Europe, became highly popular during the 1980s as an alternative to broadloom carpet, especially ...

4. Mohawk Industries - Wikipedia

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   In 1956, Mohawk Carpet Mills merged with Alexander Smith, Inc. to become Mohasco Corporation, a company large enough to appear on the first Fortune 500 rankings. Mohasco faced competition from new tufted carpet operations in Georgia, which used synthetic fibers such as nylon and polyester rather than the traditional wool used in woven carpets.

5. Vinyl composition tile - Wikipedia

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   Vinyl floor tiling. Vinyl composition tile (VCT) is a finished flooring material used primarily in commercial and institutional applications. Modern vinyl floor tiles and sheet flooring and versions of those products sold since the early 1980s are composed of colored polyvinyl chloride (PVC) chips formed into solid sheets of varying thicknesses (1 ⁄ 8 in or 3.2 mm is most common) by heat and ...

6. Carpet cleaning - Wikipedia

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   A 98% biodegradable or other, [2] slightly moist absorbent cleaning compound may be spread evenly over carpet and brushed or scrubbed in. For small areas, a household hand brush can work such a compound into carpet pile; working like "tiny sponges", the attracted cleaning solution dissolves dirt, and dirt and grime is attracted/absorbed to the compound.

7. Saffman–Taylor instability - Wikipedia

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   The simplest case of the instability arises at a planar interface within a porous medium or Hele-Shaw cell, and was treated by Saffman and Taylor [1] but also earlier by other authors. [6] A fluid of viscosity μ 1 {\displaystyle \mu _{1}} is driven in the x {\displaystyle x} -direction into another fluid of viscosity μ 2 {\displaystyle \mu ...