Archive for 2005
New sensor solutions for railways
Tires reincarnated
The Van Aarsen company began half a century ago, manufacturing a traditional Dutch watermill. Today, as well as being a...
Martian dust in the wind
Why does Martian dust blow around when it should not? The answer, my friend, is blowing in a wind tunnel in...
Changing the Limits
A new oil platform in Norway is the capstone of a project that sets new records in sub-sea engineering. Oil platforms...
Treading on thin wood
Finnish Raute has been in business for almost a hundred years. In the past couple of decades, the family-owned company...
Doing right Joan Bavaria
"If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem" is an axiom often cited by environmentalists and...
Where measurement and quality find a home
As a major engineering company, SKF relies on making sure that the products and services it provides live up to...
Getting the inside view of bearing loads, thanks to a little touch of magic
SKF has developed techniques that provide engineers with a better insight into the conditions within a bearing when the equipment...
Helicopter application puts ceramic-coated spherical plain bearings through their paces
A spherical plain bearing that incorporates a ceramic-coated inner ring, used in helicopter main rotor applications, has undergone extensive testing...
A monster idea by Jeff Taylor
Ask people in the 20-something set in the United States if they know who Jeff Taylor is and they’ll say,...
