0 present participle of wedge
1 to make something stay in a particular position by using a wedge:
He identified wedging and jamming conditions and recommended ways to avoid insertion failure.
In relation to wedging, a 30° enhanced dynamic wedge was used in each beam.
This may not be easily achievable, especially where different machines with different diaphragm and wedging systems exist within the department.
During the insertion of the peg in the hole jamming or wedging may occur.
The only failure observed was due to a pegin-hole failure caused by peg wedging (2% failure rate).
He identified wedging and jamming conditions and recommended ways to avoid these modes of insertion failure.
On outcrop scale, individual thin- to thickbedded sandstone beds are tabular to wedging.
To avoid wedging, the tolerance of the parallelism needs to be set properly, according to a desired final insertion depth.
