a thin packing strip or washer often used with a number of similar washers or strips to adjust a clearance for gears, etc
2. physics
a thin strip of magnetic material, such as soft iron, used to adjust a magnetic field
verbWord forms: shims, shimming or shimmed
3. (transitive)
to modify (a load, clearance, or magnetic field) by the use of shims
Word origin
C18: origin unknown
Examples of 'shimming' in a sentence
shimming
The magnetic field homogeneity after shimming increases significantly, which verifiesits practical value.
Tian Xia, Zhiying Miao, Shanshan Chen, Hongzhi Wang, Yefeng Yao 2017, 'Theory and development of biplanar active shim coils for a permanent NMR analyzer',PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0181552. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In standard permanent magnet undulators, the magnetic errors are reduced by applying shimming techniques.
D. Wollmann, A. Bernhard, P. Peiffer, T. Baumbach, R. Rossmanith 2008, 'Induction shimming: A new shimming concept for superconductive undulators', Physical Review Special Topics. Accelerators and Beamshttp://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.11.100702. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Passive and active shimming concepts for the compensation of linear and nonlinear effects of variably polarizing undulators are discussed.
Johannes Bahrdt, Godehard Wüstefeld 2011, 'Symplectic tracking and compensation of dynamic field integrals in complex undulatorstructures', Physical Review Special Topics. Accelerators and Beamshttp://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.14.040703. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The customized shimming elements are manufactured by a selective melting process which produces completely dense soft magnetic metal parts.
Christian Huber, Michael Goertler, Claas Abert, Florian Bruckner, Martin Groenefeld,Iulian Teliban, Dieter Suess 2018, 'Additive Manufactured and Topology Optimized Passive Shimming Elements for PermanentMagnetic Systems', Scientific Reportshttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41598-018-33059-w. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Therefore, a fast and robust shimming technique was developed for the serial production of these devices.
Yuhui Li, Joachim Pflueger 2015, 'Tuning method for phase shifters with very low first field integral errors for theEuropean X-ray Free Electron Laser', Physical Review Special Topics. Accelerators and Beamshttp://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.18.030703. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)