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Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang has said efforts should be made to improve work safety nationwide, in a move to create a stable work safety environment for the 60th anniversary of the founding of New China and relatively fast and steady economic development. |
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Saturday 5 September, 2009 08:37 AM |
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Russia has extended an investigation into a fatal accident at a Siberian hydropower plant until September 15, the federal industrial safety regulator said on Wednesday.
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Thursday 3 September, 2009 07:11 PM |
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Researchers are developing computer models to comb through thousands of injury reports in large administrative medical datasets or insurance claims data to automatically classify them based on specific words or phrases.
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Thursday 3 September, 2009 07:04 PM |
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Functional machine safety is moving beyond compliance to consider and promote profitability, productivity, and sustainability. A holistic strategy for machinery safety thinks beyond devices that can be applied to or around the machine.
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Thursday 3 September, 2009 02:41 PM |
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One of the problems often faced when lifting and shifting pipelines, bridges and heavy vehicles is restricted space in which to engineer the lift. Especially in remote, rugged and sometimes muddy or sandy locations - including trenches - it can be difficult to provide crane access overhead or to obtain sufficient clearance and a firm foundation for a lift from underneath.
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Thursday 3 September, 2009 12:40 PM |
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A potentially life-saving snow probe used to predict avalanches has been developed by University of Canterbury mechanical engineers.
The probe is the brainchild of Christchurch engineer Arthur Tyndall.
Tyndall, a former president of the Broken River Ski Club, made the first prototype in 1999 after the death of friend Neville Ryde in an avalanche at the club field in 1992.
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Monday 31 August, 2009 06:26 PM |
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Lessons to be learned - Please Circulate
Federal investigators concluded Jacksonville’s Berkman Plaza 2 parking garage collapsed because a construction company removed temporary supports at a building already weakened by design flaws and construction errors, a report obtained by the Times-Union shows.
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Friday 28 August, 2009 02:38 PM |
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For operators occupying the 19 control stations aboard E-3 Sentrys, 12-to-14-hour missions will become a bit more comfortable after new ergonomically designed seats are installed on the U.S. fleet.
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Wednesday 26 August, 2009 02:47 PM |
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Engineers at UC (University of California) Irvine are planning to outfit the local water system with sensors that monitor pipes after earthquakes and other disasters.
The sensors will alert officials when and where pipes crack or break, hastening repair, thanks to nearly 5.7 million dollars over three years from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and several local water groups.
"When an earthquake occurs and infrastructure systems fail, continued service of the water network is most critical," said Masanobu Shinozuka, lead project investigator and civil and environmental engineering chair.
"Before anything happens, I'd like to have a pipe monitoring system in place to let us know when and where damage occurs. It could minimize misery and save lives," he added. |
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Thursday 20 August, 2009 08:58 AM |
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Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading provider of technology and services that empowers client innovation and decision-making, announced today, that global automotive organisation, Ford Motor Company, has continued to improve vehicle safety performance through the use of the HyperWorks simulation suite and the power of its solver solution, RADIOSS. Combining Ford's engineering experience with the capabilities of HyperWorks has resulted in their new Fiesta range becoming a class leader for both occupant and pedestrian safety. |
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Tuesday 11 August, 2009 11:17 PM |
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The probe team set up by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has attributed the July 12 accident at Jamrudpur that claimed six lives to “deficiency in design” and “lack of adequate curing of concrete.”
Making public the findings on Tuesday, DMRC Managing Director E. Sreedharan pinned the blame on the design team, and held the incorrect advice of structural consultants as responsible for the accident. |
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Wednesday 29 July, 2009 10:13 AM |
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A tiny heart catheter pump which supports the human heart in critical conditions while pumping has been developed at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna).
The pump may not be larger than five millimetres and no longer than 45 millimetres at a ratio of 1:1. It reaches the heart via a catheter and, placed in the heart valves, helps to pump blood from the heart. The pump drive which is operated pneumatically is particularly innovative. Construction scientists at the TU Vienna have produced a prototype of a ratio of 2:1 commissioned by heart surgeon and university professor Werner Mohl.
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Monday 20 July, 2009 10:31 AM |
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Monday’s crane mishap at the Delhi Metro site where the day before a span of the elevated track under construction had come crashing down as the pillar on which it rested couldn’t take its weight, makes it the third construction accident in the last six months for the Delhi Metro, India’s vaunted showpiece for engineering excellence. |
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Tuesday 14 July, 2009 04:06 PM |
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A tiny heart catheter pump which supports the human heart in critical conditions while pumping has been developed at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna). |
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Wednesday 8 July, 2009 12:15 PM |
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Over 45% of drinking water in rural areas of China is not fit for drinking according to a World Wildlife Fund report; 300 million rural-dwellers don’t have guaranteed access to drinking water. And in 630 cities there’s the daily threat of water-borne diseases like E.coli because local municipalities don’t have the means to treat the sewage flowing from China’s ever-expanding cities. |
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Wednesday 10 June, 2009 04:11 PM |
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As construction prices in the Middle East fall, the region?s healthcare sector is not only surviving the global economic crisis, but is thriving, according to the organisers of Hospital Build.
There are currently more than 100 hospitals in the planning stage across the Middle East and Africa, and while so many industries are feeling the bite of the credit crunch, healthcare projects remain relatively unaffected because of government support and a long term commitment to healthcare infrastructure growth. |
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Wednesday 10 June, 2009 01:49 PM |
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As doctors and their patients struggle with a growing shortage of the medical isotopes used to treat cancer and other diseases, the federal government is coming under renewed pressure to fire up two nuclear reactors that were to be the backups to the rusting and leaky Chalk River, Ont., reactor where most of those isotopes are produced. |
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Tuesday 2 June, 2009 09:08 AM |
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Molex Incorporated has announced that its BradConnectivity Ultra-Lock range has been installed into the new Modulfill bottling equipment from Krones, the world market leader in beverage filling and packaging technology. Thank to a stainless steel version, the M12 quick connector system meets Krones' strict standards of hygienic design, as well as the most stringent requirements regarding tightness and reliability |
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Sunday 31 May, 2009 02:29 PM |
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A proposal by a team of UC Davis scientists to develop the world's first electron microscope capable of filming live biological processes has been awarded a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. |
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Thursday 14 May, 2009 04:11 PM |
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In the future, we'll likely be bowing down to our robot overlords. They'll have amazing artificial intelligence and powerful metal bodies. I've long thought the bodies would be electronic servos powered by high-charge batteries, but a new development by the Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory of the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech might change that. |
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Tuesday 12 May, 2009 12:46 PM |
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