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Sprays of dir t flew out of a soil box that held a retaining wall as it violently shook from a simulated 7.4 magnitude earthquake. The wall was put to test recently by engineers at the UC San Diego Englekirk Structural Engineering Center, which has the largest outdoor shake table in the United States. During the first series of tests, led by Dawn Cheng, a UCSD engineering alumna and now a civil engineering professor at UC Davis, researchers investigated the seismic response of a semi-gravity reinforced concrete cantilever wall. |
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Wednesday 16 December, 2009 07:28 AM |
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For those who dread trying to squeeze their car into a tight space, help is at hand – scientists have created a mathematical formula to help motorists park perfectly.
UK Boffins have come up with the formula for working out how to fit your car into a tight parking space. |
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Tuesday 15 December, 2009 05:25 PM |
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The Dutch yacht company Ghost Yachts and Italian design company Gloss Design unveil their first project to the public, the Ghost Yachts G180. The yacht embodies the best of two of the leading superyacht building nations. An unmistakable refined Italian styling combined with cutting edge Dutch engineering and build technology. |
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Tuesday 15 December, 2009 04:51 PM |
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The water cube’s doppelganger, Casino Oceanus , opens today in Macau at Jai Alai. While there is no mention of the architectural resemblance on developer SJM’s press release, it’s hard not to do a double take (pictured above).
Designed by Las Vegas casino architect Paul Steelman, the casino has more than 32,000sqm of gaming space over three floors. The cool blues and warm reds are meant “to be redolent of the sea and corals”, while the ETFE membrane gives the impression the building is “enveloped in multi coloured bubbles”, SJM said. |
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Tuesday 15 December, 2009 02:49 PM |
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If you peer out over the painstakingly rendered Venetian skyline in Assassin's Creed II, or watch a car being convincingly torn to pieces during a high speed crash in Forza Motorsport 3 one thing is abundantly clear. Videogames are beautiful now.
It's not the figurative beauty of yore – the iconic charm of Pac-Man, the elegiac simplicity of the vector-mapped space craft in Elite. Modern games are edging toward photo-realism; indeed, through technologies like mimetic interfaces and augmented reality, they are encroaching on reality itself. And at times they are breathtakingly close. |
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Tuesday 15 December, 2009 12:47 PM |
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THIS WEEKS TRIVIA QUIZ |
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Tuesday 15 December, 2009 10:11 AM |
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Cranes Software announces that its subsidiary Engineering Technology Associates, Inc. (ETA) was selected from amongst five finalists as the winner of the 2nd Annual SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Detroit Section/MITEF Vehicle Innovation Competition. ETA’s winning entry was a seamlessly integrated design development process, entitled the Accelerated Concept to Product (ACP) Process. |
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Tuesday 15 December, 2009 06:42 AM |
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The Albany NanoTech Complex will open an Alternative Energy Test Farm and develop an educational and workforce training program to enable participants to design and operate high-tech buildings.
The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany and Einhorn Yaffee Prescott Architecture and Engineering PC of Albany have put together a $3.5 million initiative toward that end. |
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Tuesday 15 December, 2009 05:41 AM |
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Hewlett-Packard is counting on a novel design and its expertise in micro-scale manufacturing to help it break into the accelerometer market with a new generation of tiny motion sensors — and it’s counting on the low cost and high sensitivity of its product to expand that market dramatically.
Accelerometers, which measure vibration, shock or changes in velocity, have been in widespread use for years in a host of applications.
There are small, simple sensors that cost a dollar or less, like the chip that triggers your airbag in a car crash or tells your iPhone when to rotate the screen display. And then there are large, elaborate sensors that are used in sophisticated electronics such as aircraft guidance systems and sell for around $1,000 each. |
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Monday 14 December, 2009 02:35 PM |
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