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27 Jun 2000: The test container needs to be capable of withstanding full-scale lateral earth pressures. ... It is therefore particularly well-suited to research programmes in which many tests should be performed on a single, uniform soil bed.

enginuity. A Wonderful Thing is a Phillips Machine…. In the Meade Room in the Dept of Applied Economics of Cambridge University stands a Phillips Machine, a device so cunning and ingenious ... We all know that engineers should have a knowledge of

It is difficult and expensive to carry out practical tests on structures to optimise the designs so we use a theoretical approach. ... The results of these tests are fed in to the designs of offshore plants to reduce the risks of such a catastrophic

The theoretical projects are being backed by experiment, and a rig has been installed in a test cell in the Hopkinson Thermodynamics Laboratory, making use of the old chimney, to provide ... test data to check the theoretical approaches.

Projects. Christian Hoecker. Christian Hoecker. Projects. While the Research Page discusses the overall goals of the CMMPE, this page covers some of the actual projects that constitute these areas. Projects. Jonathan Harris - Steel Origami. Jonathan

7 Feb 2001: gearboxes. Fig. 4 Progress of scuffing during test. Current work (AD 2000) is aimed at further reducing the size and increasing the robustness of Transmission Error measuring equipment and also at ... Inst. Mech. Eng., 1992, 206 (C ). 69. Smith, J.D.,'A

Within the Department, the methods have been very successfully applied in the flight control studies for the Harrier jump jet with, most unusually for a University group, two sets of test

The Institute has the triple aims of increasing the number of able people in manufacturing, improving the competitiveness of the manufacturing industry and enhancing its economic and public profile, the Institute

Some information is provided for the non-economic incentives involved. ... Although primarily focusing on technological solutions, many of these have associated social and economic effects which can also be discussed.

Engineering projects should be analysed using the three elements: Economic, Environmental and Social. ... Each team is judged on its ability to defend its portfolio of strategies in a 5 min oral report, considering both capacity constraints and social

of power plants, chemical processes, to aircraft stability, engines, even applications in economics and biology), happened in the late 1930s and 1940s.

Results show, in general, excellent agreement with engine test data. Other sources of asymmetric engine flow, such as pylons, support struts and asymmetric stators are also accommodated within this framework.

Royce tests. ... The rig used for these tests incorporated a wake generator to simulate the presence of a single upstream blade row.

6 Oct 2004: An elimination procedure at the end of each game tests how well the children have learnt the material.

Comparison of Hot Wire and Pressure Probe. A test for evaluation of the pressure probe and the application of the Least Squares method was conducted in a large scale radial inflow

Subdivide each team into three pairs. One will have responsibility for presenting technical issues, another economic and the third environmental.

Economics. Environment. Society. Engineers are quite used to considering the first two of these factors in all of their projects, but the third is equally important. ... Application of wind power is unlikely to succeed where the economic benefits are

A pioneer in the field of soil mechanics, Schofield developed drum centrifuges in Cambridge to reduce the cost of centrifuge tests, to improve the accuracy, and reduce the labour and the ... time needed for any one test series.

27 Jun 2000: calibration tests in the engineering laboratory. ... B. M. E. P. when engaged in supercharging tests in the 1930s.

Test programme. The actual research programme involves the construction and testing of a 12m span of an almost full-scale section of bridge (see photo) which will be tested under various ... The test programme will provide new information on this aspect