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Moments after Susan Ford Bales chalked her initials into a steel plate authenticating the keel of the Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier Saturday, the strongest crane in the Western Hemisphere lifted into place a 900-plus-ton section of steel marking the start of construction of the first-of-its-kind ship.
As Bales, the late President Ford's only daughter and sponsor of the ship, finished a solemn and emotional tribute to her father, a retractable canvas door rose, sending a blast of cool, misty air into the Newport News shipyard's new $37 million outfitting facility.
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Monday 16 November, 2009 03:35 PM |
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SKF inaugurated its 'Global Testing Centre' in India at Bangalore on 4th November 2009. The new facility was inaugurated by the SKF Group President and CEO; Tom Johnstone and SKF India Managing Director; Rakesh Makhija.The testing centre will be a hub of testing activities ensuring greater focus on customer requirements, cost, quality and operational efficiency.
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Saturday 7 November, 2009 02:49 PM |
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The latest SKF rolling bearings and condition monitoring systems are playing a vital role in maximising the uptime of specialised precision devices used in the ISIS neutron and muon source at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire. In particular, the SKF bearings provide a unique combination of reliability and precision, on motor driven shafts rotating at up to 6,000 rpm and balanced to speeds that are controlled to within ±5 microseconds, while the condition monitoring systems ensure continuous measurement of critical operating parameters.
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Tuesday 3 November, 2009 01:14 PM |
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The chairlift on Ruud Mountain at Sun Valley in 1947 had a very peculiar characteristic. It ran as though it had a mind of its own. If you didn't sit down gently when you started your ride, and jumped on instead, this would start the cable bouncing.
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Tuesday 20 October, 2009 05:20 PM |
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ALCOA’s Todd Summe claims aluminium offers real-world fuel economy and emissions benefits to manufacturers of commercial vehicles.
Summe, Division Manager of Product and Development for Alcoa, made his claims at the SAE Commercial Vehicle Engineering and Exhibition in Illinois, USA.
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Thursday 15 October, 2009 12:15 PM |
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The Belgian company Stageco has constructed three gigantic, identical stages for the current U2 360° Tour. What makes this project special, is that high-pressure hydraulics are being used for the first time ever to assemble and dismantle the 230 ton construction - also known as “the claw”. Together with Enerpac, Stageco has developed a unique system, based on Enerpac’s Synchronous Lift System, to raise the modular construction to a height of 30 metres quickly and safely.
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Wednesday 14 October, 2009 09:37 AM |
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The German motion engineering specialist Wittenstein (formerly alpha gearheads) claims to have re-invented the servo worm gearhead with a new design that boosts torque levels by up to 50% and overcomes the problem of backlash increasing during the service life of the gearhead.
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Thursday 8 October, 2009 12:00 PM |
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The practice of dowel-pinning machinery was originally conceived within the U.S. Navy well over a century ago. This innovation was triggered by the need for a solution to the extreme conditions faced on board naval surface vessels and submarines.
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Thursday 1 October, 2009 11:03 PM |
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Precise load control, optimised productivity, and safe, easy operation are all critical assets for crane operators and owners involved in materials handling, maintenance and fabrication tasks. The Konecranes DynaPilot sway control system is engineered to deliver all of these, allowing users to optimise the use of their crane’s speed and acceleration while still being able to position the load accurately.
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Tuesday 29 September, 2009 06:30 PM |
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In August, Jefferson Lab asked Fermilab to pack up its backup turbine for its cryogenics refrigeration unit and send it halfway across the country. Jefferson Lab’s primary turbine was in Europe for normal wear-and-tear repair, overhaul, and design modification, and its spare turbine had just failed. The options were to lose countless hours of laboratory experiment time while the backup was sent to Europe for repair, or ask a friend for a favor.
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Saturday 26 September, 2009 06:57 AM |
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Owners and contractors building biodiesel facilities can reduce capital costs and risk, and realize design scalability by specifying grooved mechanical piping for utility and process piping systems. Grooved piping compresses construction schedules to get plants on line faster, minimizing project and financial risk.
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Friday 25 September, 2009 02:57 PM |
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TAG Heuer's nearly mythic Monaco V4 watch, the world's first mechanical timepiece with a belt-driven movement and a linear winding mass, will soon be available. The landmark watch's debut marks the 150-year anniversary of TAG Heuer, and will be produced in a symbolic edition of just 150 pieces. According to a press statement from the brand, seventy-five examples of the Monaco V4 will be delivered in November 2009, with a second run of the same quantity following in June of 2010. These watches, all of which are cased in platinum, share the same technical features as the Monaco V4 which TAG Heuer recently announced for the Only Watch 2009 charity auction. (Click here to read about that watch)
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Wednesday 23 September, 2009 09:59 PM |
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For more than 50 years , air actuators have played a key role in many pneumatically powered machines. Air actuators differ from metal pneumatic and hydraulic cylinders in that they have no piston rods and cylinder barrels. Instead, the simple and cost-effective design somewhat resembles a flexible rubber bellows. But construction is similar to that of a car tire, giving the devices toughness, pressure resistance, and dimensional stability.
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Wednesday 16 September, 2009 11:29 PM |
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Production by domestic manufacturers dropped 4.5 percent in the second half of 2008 over the same period in 2007, according to a report issued annually by Russia’s Scientific-Industrial Association of Valve Manufacturers (NPAA). That trend continued throughout the first half of 2009 though NPAA will not release specific figures until yearend. The volume of imports, meanwhile, is soaring.
In 2008, domestic producers focused mostly on the manufacture of steel gate valves, ball valves, electric actuators, steel check valves and cast-iron gate valves, according to NPAA. Steel back-pressure valves (valve gates) and steel check valves were produced in the highest volume.
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Monday 7 September, 2009 09:41 PM |
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ITS straightforward design , the ease of installation and uncomplicated mechanics have made the Australian bush windmill a must-have water pumping solution in places such as Afghanistan, Malaysia and even Peru.
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Monday 7 September, 2009 05:38 PM |
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FLI Structures , part of the Haley Steel Group, is a leader in the design, manufacture, supply and installation of screw-piled foundations - a rapid steel foundation solution. Supporting various structures in both tension and compression, FLI screw piles are suitable for many rail structures including signal posts, gantries, cabinets, lighting towers and platforms. The company also specialises in steel structures such as steel grillages and masts.
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Wednesday 2 September, 2009 05:07 PM |
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A mechanism for drilling square holes has to turn circular motion into square motion.
In one early attempt to create such a device, James Watts had the idea of rotating a Reuleaux triangle within a square. A Reuleaux triangle, named after mechanical engineer Franz Reuleaux (1829–1905), has the same width all the way around. Its shape is made from arcs of circles centered at the vertices of an equilateral triangle.
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Tuesday 1 September, 2009 10:05 PM |
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A partner throughout the design process, from project conception and analysis to prototyping and validation, Gates offers innovative belt drive solutions for power transmission, motion control and beyond. Three stories of how Gates worked with industry-leading customers to meet design challenges are available as case studies on the site:
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Tuesday 1 September, 2009 12:27 PM |
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Black & Veatch has completed the rehabilitation of the first of five water mains that lie beneath the heavily trafficked Lion Rock Tunnel in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The company is using innovative trenchless technology for the Lion Rock water mains to reduce impacts to commuters.
"One of the major constraints on this project was getting access to the mains," said Alan Man, Black & Veatch Vice President and leader of the company's water business in Hong Kong SAR. "Access to the pipe gallery via the shafts within the tunnel is permitted for only 14 days a month and then only between 1:30 am and 6:00 am."
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Monday 31 August, 2009 09:18 AM |
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A young engineer at The University of Manchester has turned a few bits of pipe, metal and bolts into a water pumping system that has the potential to change the lives of entire villages in Sierra Leone.
But the fiendishly simple but highly effective system, built by Mechanical Engineering graduate Dale Barnes, may never make it to Africa, due to a lack of funding for the project.
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Friday 28 August, 2009 07:43 PM |
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Huge flood-control pumps installed in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina don't protect the city adequately and the Army Corps of Engineers could have saved $430 million in replacement costs by buying proven equipment, a federal investigation finds.
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Wednesday 26 August, 2009 11:46 AM |
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