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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

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.

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

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

27 Jun 2000: With regard to absolute power requirements the tests and calculations indicated that 175g should be reached with around 225kW. ... The original wheel is still in use after more than 1000 earthquake tests.

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

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.

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

The geometry modelled is a generic design developed in-house which conforms to present regulations, and complements a series of experimental tests.