<a style="color:#000" href="https://www.tugraz.at/institute/ittm">Institute of Thermal Turbomachinery and Machine Dynamics</a></br><a href="https://www.tugraz.at">Graz University of Technology</a> https://aeroenginesafety.tugraz.at/ 2026-05-01T16:53:56+00:00 https://aeroenginesafety.tugraz.at/ https://aeroenginesafety.tugraz.at/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:logo.png text/html 2022-02-20T16:00:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://aeroenginesafety.tugraz.at/doku.php?id=23:234:2341:2341&rev=1645372844&do=diff 23.4.1 Static seals, O-ring seals <a id="static-seals-o-rings"></a> [ Static seals O-rings ] This chapter is limited to O-rings. They are the most frequent sealing element. This is not least based on its simplicity in design and assembly. Anyway, they are not unproblematic. This shows already emerged incidents up to flight accidents, which stay in causative connection with the failure of an O ring seal.<a id="failure-potential-of-o-rings"></a><a id="assembly-of-o-ring-seals"></a><a id="o-ri…