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From: Chris Hanson <chanson@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: sci.engr
Date: 07 Nov 92 22:17 PST
Subject: Scandium and Osmium end-users
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1466400001:000:326
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!chanson    Nov  7 22:17:00 1992


I am doing some research into current uses of Scandium 
and Osmium 187.  Does anyone have information on
how these substances are used in industry and
manufacturing?  I am especially interested in
identifying end-users.

Thanks for your help.

Chris Hanson
E-mail:  chanson@igc.org
Telephone:  415-988-1155
Fax:  415-988-9209

Xref: sparky sci.engr:2253 sci.engr.mech:513 sci.aeronautics:2457 sci.math.num-analysis:3271 sci.engr.civil:525
From: muthu@mecad.uta.edu (S.N. Muthukrishnan)
Newsgroups: sci.engr,sci.engr.mech,sci.aeronautics,sci.math.num-analysis,sci.engr.civil
Subject: A brief questionnaire about library policies in your university (3 questions)
Keywords: library, check out
Date: 9 Nov 92 22:53:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: utagraph.1992Nov9.225338.23725
Reply-To: muthu@mecad.uta.edu
Followup-To: sci.engr.mech
Organization: University of Texas at Arlington

Hello everyone,

I appreciate the time you take to fill out this
brief questionnaire.

1.  Does your library let graduate students check out journals and
    bounded periodicals? If so, are there any restrictions?

2.  If you have to make a copy using the copier in the library how
    much do you have to pay for each copy?

Please reply to 

         muthu@mecad.uta.edu

Regards,

Muthu


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From: stanb@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Stan Bischof)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:09:24 GMT
Subject: Re: The Compressed-Air Car--Possible?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Rosa, CA
Newsgroups: sci.engr

In sci.engr, rizzo@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (anthony.r.rizzo) writes:

>I'm sure that it's possible to contain some fluid at 100,000 psi.
>I'm not sure that air is still a gas at 100,000 psi, though.
>I would have to look into the matter.  It's been too long
>since I had thermodynamics.

Actually, I would think that this would be highly desirable! Think of
how an aerosol can works- the vapor pressure of the liquid propellant
maintains a reasonably constant pressure inside the can. Hence a
tank of liquid air would provide not only much more air than
a tank of compressed air, but would also provide pretty much even
pressure to power the hypothetical car.

questions: what pressure would be needed to keep air liquid at room
temp (or for that matter at say 50-60C to account for parking the 
car in the hot sun without the tank doing nasty things)?

   What amount of usable energy could be stored this way, taking the
efficiencies of the system into account?

  How do you keep the liquid air from fractionating, or if it does do so,
how do you deal with the effects of this? Or would you want to do this
with nitrogen rather than air?

I suspect very low energy density and very heavy tanks.

Aynone have some numbers handy?

Stan Bischof
HPSR 
Newsgroups: sci.engr
From: skenny@nano.engr.mun.ca (Shawn Kenny)
Subject: ? on PRESSURE VESSEL CODE
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 21:43:21 GMT

Can someone tell me the name and address (FAX # as well) for the
regulatory body in the state of Florida regarding the design and
inspection of pressure vessels. Thanks.

Please email me at skenny@pico.engr.mun.ca

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From: selee@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Lee Say Eng)
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 09:29:22 GMT
Subject: Need HELP !
Organization: the HP Corporate notes server
Newsgroups: sci.engr


I have been trying without much success to find the amount of
damage that a machine part will suffer when it is impacted by 
a moving body.  I understand that when the kinetic energy of
the moving body exceeds the maximum elastic strain energy of
the machine part, the part will (if we neglect the inertia of
the part and the energy dissipated during impact) either suffer
some permanent deformation or be crushed at the location where
the cross-sectional area is minimum.   I however do not know
how to find by how much the part will be crushed in such a case.
It could be found experimentally but it would also be beneficial
to be able to theoretically predict things.  The material is
pretty brittle but to simplify things, it might be easier to
ignore failure by crack propagation.  Any help will be greatly
appreciated.   


		     ********
		     * mass *  |  Free falling mass
		     *  m   *  |  from height h 
		     ********  V


                               |
                               |
                               V
		       ****  ---  Distance that will
          Machine     *    * ---  be crushed ??
           Part      *      *  ^
                    *        * |
                   *          *
              ___ *___________ * _____
	      ////////////////////////
		    Rigid Base
                 
  
  Data known regarding machine part:  
  
		Dimensions/geometry 
		Young's Modulus, E
		Compressive strength
		Ultimate tensile strength

Thanks in advance,

Alan Phang

alan@hpmalr50.mal.hp.com






                       
Newsgroups: sci.engr
From: tzb76@isuvax.iastate.edu (Set)
Subject: disgusted engineer
Reply-To: tzb76@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 07:01:43 GMT

	A friend of mine (who graduated as an industrial engineer)
is becoming extremely discouraged with certain aspects of his job
Time after time, he has complained of the apathy of the managers
who run the large factory where he works. Entirely too much time
and effort seems to be wasted in the generation of reports, useless
or bogus numbers, and foolish political projects that will accomplish
little or nothing. (not to mention meetings) 
	Moral at the plant is very low, among both the floor workers
and the salaried staff; most have become very cynical, feeling that
management does nothing but screw them, lie, and manuever for thier
own aggrandizement. My friend feels constant frustration with the
endless corporate games and the anti-effectiveness or the managerial
'team'. He truely wants to solve real problems, help people work 
more efficiantly, and recieve recognition for that. Solving
problems is his real joy; hypocracy, make-work, and the elitism
so characteristic of many engineers and managers he hates.

	Does anyone else have these same problems or concerns?

	Can anyone suggest a company where these problems are absent
or minimal?

Paul
From: rvannest@fresnel.ulaval.ca (Richard Van Neste)
Subject: Re: Lasers and holography
Summary: On the existence of "free space projected holography" 
Keywords: Holograms, free space, tem00 mode
Organization: Universite Laval, Ste-Foy, Quebec (Canada)
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 07:16:25 GMT

In article <BwtJIE.M9v@acsu.buffalo.edu> v068qlek@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Adam Jachniewicz) writes:
>I would like to know if there are holograms that have
>been projected in free space (rather then the type projected on mirrors).
>I also would like to know if it is possible to project two nonvisible 
>laser beams (to cross each other) and produce a dot where they intersect.
>Is there such a phenomenon? I have had no sucess with this, I think that
>either the beam is not strong enough, the wrong freq.,mode,or that such
>a phenonmenon doesn't exist.


I dont really know if there is such a thing as "free space projected holography.

What I do know, altough, is that two light beams propagating in free space
don't interact with each other; they're crossing each other as if the other
didn't exist. What happens in holography is the addition of two beams
ON A MEDIA (that is the photographic plate). The two beams stay independent
but the plate records the summation.

So, to answer to your second question, two invisible beams cannot produce a
visible point at their intersection unless some media react to the beams.
Of course, if the beams are intense enough (in the range of gigawatts),
they can litterally evaporate a dust particle that happens to be on the
path, but dont expect this kind of behavior from a He-Ne laser!

Of course, I'm speaking here for ordinary linear media, such as glass
or air. But some really weird things can happen in what we call
optical non-linear media...

I hope my explanations are clear enough.


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| Richard Van Neste              | "Enivrez-vous sans cesse! De vin,      |
| graduate student               |  de poesie ou de vertu: a votre guise. |
| Centre d'optique, photonique   |  Mais enivrez-vous!"                   |
| et laser (COPL)                |                  -- Beaudelaire        |
| Universite Laval               |                                        |
| Quebec, Canada                 | (Silly translation: "Just get drunk!") |
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Organization: Middle East Technical University - Computer Center
Date: Thursday, 5 Nov 1992 17:18:58 TUR
From: <E59137@TRMETU.BITNET>
Newsgroups: sci.engr
Subject: Schileren Optical Flow Vis. reference request

Hi,

For a project I have to use a Schieleren Apparatus for optical flow
visualization in a supersonic wind tunnel and I would appreciate if
someone can guide me to references about the process before I start
a literature survey.  Please e-mail.

Thanx in advance,

Note: Before anyone becomes screaming 'This is not the right Newsgroup'
please consider that of the sci.engr groups I only get this and .chem,
.civil so I _had_ to post here|

Neyir Cenk Gokce

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Newsgroups: sci.engr
From: tomas_e@LINK.Physchem.KTH.SE (Tomas Eriksson)
Subject: No DATs in US? (was Re: Engineers needed--why?)
Reply-To: tomas_e@LINK.Physchem.KTH.SE
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:26:02 GMT

Sorry 'bout replying to an old one, but...

In article <13510039@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com>, stanb@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Stan Bischof) writes:
>[On the subject of recordable CD:s]
>A secondary (and very real) reason why you won't see them for quite
>awhile is good old Congress. The lobby groups are against any recordable
>media since it supposedly cuts into their sales. Ask yourself why you
                                                                   ^^^
>can't buy a DAT recorder in the US, while they are readily available 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>in the rest of the world.

Is this actually the case?! And, if so, could this somehow be related to 
the observation earlier in the thread about whether engineers are in 
shortage or not, that there are more lawyers in New York alone than in 
all of Japan? :-)

Tomas
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            Surface Force Group, Department of Physical Chemistry,
               Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

"These latter-day practitioners of surface chemistry reflect a lingering of the
adventurous spirit of the Enlightment" -- Charles Tanford
From: mattb@ssc-vax (Matt Baney)
Newsgroups: sci.engr
Subject: Automated Software Analysis
Date: 10 Nov 92 19:12:03 GMT
Reply-To: mattb@ssc-vax.boeing.com (Matt Baney)
Organization: Boeing Aerospace & Electronics

I am posting this for a colleague who doesn't have access to the net??
Please email any information directly to Debbie, or to me and I will
forward it??

thanks 
matt
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  SUBJECT: Automated Software Analysis
  KEYWORDS:  Software analysis, reverse engineering, re-engineering,
             re-use.
  E-MAIL:  rickend@net.a1.ca.boeing.com   
             (!! thats a1 (as in the steak-sauce), and not aI or al !!)

  Recently attended a discussion on automated software analysis 
  tools for transformation of existing software systems into 
  reusable components.   I am looking for information on any tools 
  that may be available to parce an existing segment of source code, 
  create functionality flows, data control, flows, and/or relationships 
  of the functions and data (if possibly the source code is object 
  related), etc.  The purpose of these tools is to perform reverse
  engineering on existing software systems where the documentation and
  any diagrams of the system is out-of-date, and possibly incorrect.  
  Then the segments may then be incorporated into an upgraded version, 
  or even new, software systems (re-use).

  --Thanks,
  --Debbie



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Newsgroups: sci.engr,sci.engr.mech,sci.aeronautics,sci.math.num-analysis,sci.engr.civil
From: muthu@mecad.uta.edu (S.N. Muthukrishnan)
Subject: A brief questionnaire about library policies in your university: Followup
Followup-To: sci.engr.mech
Reply-To: muthu@mecad.uta.edu
Organization: University of Texas at Arlington
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:22:17 GMT

Hello everyone,

Thanks to all those who responded to by _brief_ questionnaire. One
of the persons who had replied wanted to know the intention of the
survey. 

Our University has a new policy that does not let students check out
any journal of any kind. The copies are 10 cents each. So I thought
that it was worth noting what other schools do regarding this. I feel
that students should be allowed to check out journals (bounded, at the
least) for a certain period of time. The complaint that the officials
have is huge fines that accumulate due to late journals. Before this
policy was introduced the fine was 1 cent a minute. Students appeal
such huge fines and get them waived invariably. But what they do not
realize is how much more damage will be caused to journals. Since this
policy was introduced I have myself seen atleast 50 pages ripped off
three journals. Is this new policy worth such nuisance?

Cheers,

Muthu

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Newsgroups: sci.engr,misc.jobs.contract,misc.jobs.misc,can.jobs
From: ndallen@r-node.gts.org (Nigel Allen)
Subject: Questionnaire for Consultants Directory
Organization: Echo Beach, Toronto
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 08:53:45 GMT

[Here is a questionnaire that you can fill out if you would like your
consulting business listed free of charge in a directory of consultants.
Your local library may have a copy of the directory. It only lists  
consultants and consulting organizations in the United States and 
Canada. Please do not return the questionnaire to me. Send it to 
the directory editor at the post office box in Maryland.]

 Complete this form for FREE listing in
 CONSULTANTS AND CONSULTING ORGANIZATIONS DIRECTORY
 A Reference Guide to Concerns and Individuals Engaged in Consultation
 for Business, Industry, and Government. Published by Gale Research Inc.

Return questionnaire to:
 Consultants and Consulting Organizations Directory
 Editorial Services Limited
 P.O. Box 6789
 Silver Spring, Maryland 20916
 U.S.A.
 telephone (301) 871-5280
 fax (301) 871-9538

Name of Firm or Independent Consultant:

Address (list branch offices at end of questionnaire):

Telephone:                        Year Founded:
Fax:                     Toll-free:           Other:
Principal executives (names and titles):
Number of staff (total):
Number of staff (consulting professionals):
Annual consulting revenues (omit, if not for publication):
Description of consulting services:

Industries served:
Indicate the appropriate description of your firm:
 [] large business  [] small business
 [] minority-owned  [] women-owned  [] serves government
Geographic area served:

MAJOR SUBJECT SECTIONS
Each company is listed in one major subject section. Check the box of
the one subject that best reflects the activity of your organization.
  [] Agriculture, Forestry and Landscaping
  [] Architecture anfd Interior Design
  [] Art, Graphics and Communications Media
  [] Business and Finance
  [] Computer Technology, Telecommunications, and Information Services
  [] Education and Personal Development
  [] Engineering, Science, and Technology
  [] Environment, Geology, and Land Use
  [] Health, Medicine and Safety
  [] Human Resources Development
  [] Management
  [] Manufacturing/Industrial/Transportation Operations
  [] Marketing and Sales
  [] Politics and Social Issues

Recent publications or videos by your organization and/or its principal
executives (provide full bibliographic information for each title):

Seminars/workshops (List titles and topics of programs sponsored or
presented by your organization):

Computer and Special Services (include descriptions of unusual computer
hardware, software, systems, or data bases used in consulting work, as
well as any other special services not covered above):

The following information is very important.
Branch offices: List complete street address, P.O. Box, city, state or
province, country, zip or postal code.

Attach additional sheets if necessary.

Prepared by (name, title and date):
From: rballar2@fox.nstn.ns.ca (Rick Ballard)
Newsgroups: sci.engr.civil
Subject: Sequenced Batch Reactors
Date: 5 Nov 92 17:28:47 GMT
Organization: Nova Scotia Technology Network

Hello,

Does anyone know the location of any Sequenced Batch Reactors?  In the 
world? In Canada specifically?

Jay Parsons
parsons@hawk.nstn.ns.ca
Student
Geomatics Show
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Newsgroups: sci.engr.civil
From: skenny@nano.engr.mun.ca (Shawn Kenny)
Subject: ? ON PRESSURE VESSEL CODE
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 21:46:48 GMT

Can someone tell me the name and address (FAX # as well) for the
regulatory body in the state of Florida regarding the design and
inspection of pressure vessels. Thanks.

Please email me at skenny@pico.engr.mun.ca

--
"There is the smell of an election in the air. Some of you believe it is
the smell of tar and asphalt... I assure you, however, that it is indeed
the smell of an election." -   John Savage, Leader of the N.S. Liberals.
                           skenny@pico.engr.mun.ca St. John's, NF Canada
From: JPS9@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: sci.engr.civil
Subject: Timber bridges
Date: 5 Nov 92 20:47:50 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

Is anyone out there involved in any research on timber bridges?  I doing my
ters thesis on hardwood glulam timber bridges.  I'd be interested in anything
anyone is doing in the way of timber bridges.  Please respond via e-mail, since
I don't get the chance to read netnews very often.
                                     Jim
Newsgroups: sci.engr.civil
From: gregk@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Gregory Krueger)
Subject: Expert Systems in Civil Engineering
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 06:48:15 GMT
Organization: Colorado State U. Engineering College

Greetings,
	Once again, I am posting a request for more information.  I 
appreciate all of you who replied to my request for sewer design.
The suggestions helped out immensely, so thanks a lot!

	Anyways, I am also taking a graduate level course on 
Knowledge Based Expert Systems with a good friend of mine.  I have
become extremely interested in Expert systems to do with Transportation
Expert Systems.  My friend is looking into Expert Systems in Enviornmental
engineering.  (Yes, we have papers due on these topics too, but we at 
least got to chose our areas of interest)  Our library is not among the 
greatest research institutions in the world, which makes research 
very difficult.  We have both found some limited information, however
we have not found anyting really good.

	If anyone has any information that they could send me on these
two topics, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks a lot,

Greg Krueger 

gregk@longs.lance.colostate.edu

Newsgroups: sci.engr.civil
From: sprent@sol.surv.utas.edu.au (Tony Sprent)
Subject: Precision of velocity determination using GPS
Organization: University of Tasmania
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 03:49:24 GMT

I am investigating the possible use of GPS for the calibration of vehicle
speedometers. Can anyone give me any information they may have on the precisiom
of velocity determination using standard C/A code GPS receivers, or give
me the name of anybody who could help me?

Any assistance by email to
 
			sprent@sol.surv.utas.edu.au (Tony Sprent)
 
would be greatly appreciated.
_________________________________________________________
	Tony Sprent                                             
 Department of Surveying and Spatial Information Science 
 University of Tasmania                                  
 GPO Box 252C Hobart                                      
 Tasmania Australia                                               
                                                         
 Phone 61-02-202110 Fax 61-02-240282  International        
         002-202110       002-240282  Australia          
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From: civil8@itakura.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp (Ito Labolatory(Civil. Eng.))
Newsgroups: sci.engr.civil
Subject: Bidge Pictures Database
Date: 11 Nov 92 09:40:30 GMT
Distribution: sci
Organization: Itakura Lab., Dept. of Elec. Eng., Nagoya Univ.


Hi

My advisor, Professor Shizuo Shimada
is working on a project to colloect pictures of
bridges from all around the world and to create an image 
database. The final product will be in the form of a CD
that has the images plus discribtive and numerical data
about every bridge. The main target of the project is
to help in the education of civil engineering students and in
the preliminary stage of bridge type selection.

The project is supported by the Japanese ministry of
education and the Brodcasting University in Tokyo.

If you are interested in the project and you like to
participate by your private picture collection or by
developing the software of the system (for Mac and Unix)
please contact me by e-mail to the following address:

c42394a@nucc.cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Amin Hammad

Department of Civil Engineering
Nagoya University, Japan


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