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Volume 5, Issue 7
8 May 2010
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 7, page: 4 –4
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0718
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 7, page: 5 –5
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0719
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(6 pages) - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 7, page: 12 –12
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0720
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William Dennis reports progress on three transport infrastructure projects. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 7, page: 13 –13
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0721
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- Author(s): M. Langdon
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 7, p. 14 –15
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0700
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In this paper, Brunei's Royal Albert Bridge is the only rail link between Cornwall and the rest of Britain. Refurbishing it is a complex engineering project. Dubbed 'Brunei's masterpiece', the 151-year-old Royal Albert Bridge spans the River Tamar between Plymouth and Saltash, carrying around 30 trains a day. Now, under the most complex refurbishment plan in its history, the structure will be strengthened, restored and repainted over the next three years. Network Rail, which is responsible for the bridge, will be inviting tenders for the work. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 7, p. 16 –17
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0722
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What's exercising contributors to the E&T inbox? - Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 7, p. 18 –19
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0701
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This paper presents ten significant usages of coherent light in different areas. Laser can be used for milking cows, hacking, antiaging technique, lightning rod, and for making medals. - Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 7, p. 20 –22
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0702
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The safety of the military and other security services is paramount - could the laser be on its way to realising the tricorder? It's so easy for the crew of the USS Enterprise. If they want to know what something is made of, all they have to do is aim a tricorder at it and all is revealed. Back in the real world, working out whether you are faced with a bomb or a bag of cement is a lot harder and more dangerous. The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have shown how effective the so-called improvised explosive device (IED) can be. It's easy to make and hard to detect. So, the military and security services are looking to sensing technology to give them tricorders for finding telltale chemicals that indicate whether the barrel on the road is just a barrel or something far more deadly. The problem is being able to detect without getting into range of a bomb and the laser, which turns 50 this month, is fast becoming the technology of choice for what the military call "standoff sensor". - Author(s): N. Spurrier
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 7, p. 23 –27
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0703
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The recent International London Book Fair focused heavily on the new technologies of e-publishing and digitisation. We asked technology historian and bibliophile Nick Spurrier to introduce E&T readers to the little-known world of library engineering. - Author(s): K. Sangani
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 7, p. 28 –31
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0704
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Counterfeiters have targeted branded goods for many years, but increasingly the fraudsters are infiltrating the supply chain with the result that sub-standard components end up in consumer devices. - Author(s): M. Williamson
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 7, p. 32 –35
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0705
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As for applications, Tom Baer, executive director of the Stanford Photonics Research Center, says that "well over 50,000" laser patents have been issued since its invention, "placing it in good company with other innovations such as the computer, the LCD, and fibre optics". Asked which applications of the laser he considered the most important or interesting, Townes says: "I'm most pleased with the medical applications, [but] for my own purposes, the scientific applications have been most important. I presently use them for astronomy." And what of his feelings for that ubiquitous lecturing tool? "Yes, I like using a laser pointer". - Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 7, p. 36 –37
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0706
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In 1988, chipmaking could have made a big leap that promised to secure its future all the way down to process technologies not due to appear until 2020. This paper shows how extreme ultraviolet lithography has struggled to become a tool for chipmaking, despite the increasingly arcane workarounds for conventional tools. - Author(s): M. Langdon
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 7, page: 38 –38
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0707
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The paper presents hybrid-laser welding combines the advantages of laser welding and gas metal arc welding to create an alternative welding process. - Author(s): M. Langdon
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 7, p. 40 –43
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0708
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The Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) market is estimated to be worth $2.3b in over the next decade and it is forecast that around 1,400 new AUVs will be built. There have been at least 630 vehicles built of all shapes and sizes depending on their application with uses in the military, scientific and oil and gas sectors already well established. The main driving forces for these new vehicles include the expense and problems of trying to find vessel time, the increasing need for long duration measurements and observations, the growing acceptance and maturity of unmanned technology and the need to remove personnel from risk. - Author(s): N. Anscombe
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 7, p. 44 –48
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0709
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Hydrogen is the most abundant element on our planet and has been heralded as the clean fuel of the future. However, in order to obtain hydrogen in a form that can be used as a fuel, we need to use up energy. Lots of it. We need to use electricity to make hydrogen; we then need to store and transport that hydrogen; and then, using a fuel cell, turn it back into electricity to run a car. This paper shows that the current focus for the car of the future is plug-in electric vehicles, but there is still a lot of support for hydrogen fuel cells to be part of the solution. - Author(s): S. Davis
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 7, p. 49 –51
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0710
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There has been an awful lot of rhetoric about smart grid, but depending on who you listen to it can seem to be a disparate concept. A great deal of attention has been lavished on the growth of renewable power but it is shown that without the implementation of a smart grid it will not deliver. - Author(s): P. Hunter
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 7, p. 52 –55
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0711
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Financial software is the black hole of enterprise IT always expanding, sucking-in functionality from the applications that are around it, extending its influence to customers, suppliers, and partners through the Internet and business-to-business infrastructures. Now this expansion is about to accelerate, propelled by a number off fundamental changes in the nature of business most notably its increasingly global and online nature along with its growing dependence on analysis as a steer to business strategy. This situation raises a dilemma for enterprises. On the one hand financial software platforms, along with other components of enterprise resource planning (ERP) such as customer relationship management have become a natural focal point for integration of information and business intelligence (BI). - Author(s): P. Rigby
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 7, p. 56 –59
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0712
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Packet-based networks, enabled by lasers, are still surprisingly inflexible. This paper looks at the photonic technologies that are helping them loosen up and keep our data flowing. With regards to this, the reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer was presented that could save operating costs by eliminating the need to send an engineer to a network node to install or configure the optical equipment. It would also mean that network set-ups could be reworked in minutes, not days. - Author(s): J.-P. Conti
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 7, p. 60 –63
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0713
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This paper shows how Mexico's thriving communications industry has made Carlos Slim the world's richest man. Basically, he came up with a clever threestep plan: first, write a user-friendly operating system and compatible office toolkit; second, get a critical mass of computer users hooked on it; and third, release a new version every couple of years. - Author(s): N. Smith
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 7, p. 64 –67
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0714
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Marine science and water management aspects are reported. Aquarium management is also dealt with in this paper. - Author(s): M. Herron
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 7, p. 68 –69
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0715
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Management books tend towards the macho. Business, to a certain mindset, is conflict by other means the man sitting next to me on the tube the other day was reading Clausewitz's 'On War', and, with his pinstripes and BlackBerry, didn't look like he was heading for a battlefield. But there's an inevitable attraction in stressing the 'extreme risk' of the office-bound life, and the metaphors of management literature tend to reflect this. "Firefighting", in particular, seems to have entered mainstream language: managers talk about "putting out fires", which they safely do while pacing a carpet, taking conference calls, and earning many times the salary of those who walk into burning buildings for a living. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 7, page: 71 –71
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0723
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Dates for your diary. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 7, p. 76 –77
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0724
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Is there anybody out there? We talk to the author of a book about technology behind the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 7, p. 78 –79
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0725
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See, hear and feel the future with transparent toasters, all-hearing webcams and ground-hugging football boots. Simon Munk brings you the latest high-tech gadgets to fill your senses. - Author(s): J. Pollard
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 7, page: 80 –80
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0716
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One canny engineer ensured his legacy was lit up like a lighthouse through the ages. - Author(s): M. Barfield
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 7, page: 81 –81
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0726
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Mike Barfield's page of uncanny engineering news and no-less-bizarre engineering views. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 7, page: 82 –82
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0717
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Jack's family is adjusting to the post-election landscape: how will engineers fare in the brave new world?
Editorial: Bond to bomb detection: 50 years of the laser
News
Asia news
News in brief
Special report: Brunel bridge to get new lease of life
Letters to the Editor
Jack of all trades [lasers]
Sensor sweep
Laptops on loan
Buyer beware [consumer counterfeits]
Golden age of lasers [electronics lasers]
Extreme measures
Taming the laser
Deep impressions [Autonomous Underwater Vehicle]
Hydrogen: hype or hope?
Grid looks to smart solutions
Focusing on finance [financial software]
Flexing the network
Family fortunes
Words from the water world
How green was my company?
Events
Book reviews
Gadgets
The eccentric engineer
E&Tcetera
Jack's blog
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