Hydraulic and industrial hoses require hardware for their setup. Clamps attatch hoses/pipes, sometimes also being used to retard the flow of the fluid being transferred. Fittings are all the miscellaneous pipe/tubing connections (tees, elbows, Ys, etc.), sometimes known as hardware, required to run pipes and their branches in various directions to their destination. Manual valves are also considered fittings. KEYWORDS for this process: seismic connectors, expansion joints