M.I.T. researchers have successfully etched a 25 nanometer grid onto a piece of silicon, as NewScientist.com reports, presumably opening a way to pack transistors far more densely than ever before – but that's only one hurdle out of the way. by Erik Sherman
Telstra has its detractors. One of them is telco industry analyst Paul Budde. In this edition of BTalk Australia Budde tells Phil Dobbie that he sees the structure and behaviour of Telstra as unique in the world. Budde believes there needs to be at least a threat...
By Kate Holton and Marc Roca LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's BT BT plans to invest 1.5 billion pounds ($3 billion) to roll out super-fast broadband to up to 10 million UK homes by 2012, enabling services such as video conferencing and interactive gaming....
The exact term George Soros uses is "superbubble," as he tells a skeptical Greg Ip of the Wall Street Journal in an interview, Soros, the Man Who Cries Wolf, Now Is Warning of a "Superbubble". Bubblicious is a kind of gum favored by callow teenagers (I loved...
By Christiaan Hetzner and John O'Donnell FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Tires-to-brakes maker Continental CONG rejected Schaeffler Group's surprise 11.2 billion euro ($17.8 billion) bid, saying only the family owned firm stood to gain from the offer which was too low. Late on Tuesday, the...
Optus says a national high-speed broadband network could cost consumers between $32.50 and $105 a month and the return on capital would be two thirds that demanded by rival Telstra Corporation Ltd.Optus, Australia's second biggest telecommunications company said a wholesale rate between $25 and $75 a month per customer...
By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters UK) - BT BT will suspend its share buyback to invest 1.5 billion pounds in rolling out super-fast broadband to 10 million homes by 2012, enabling services such as video conferencing and interactive gaming. But its shares fell as some analysts...
The Gateshead Millennium Bridge, designed by consulting engineers Gifford and Partners with Wilkinson Eyre, is an eye-catching, steel, opening bridge that spans 105m across the River Tyne. When closed, small river craft can sail beneath the bridge but, for larger vessels, the cable-stayed double arched structure pivots at the abutments...
Millepede Cable Ties made use of FEA's Engineering Consultancy Services department to help optimize the design of a patented new type of cable tie. By using LUSAS Analyst a series of nonlinear contact analyses were done to investigate the deformation of a typical cell in the cable tie. This resulted...
As a way to generate interest in the Mars program, the Mars Society held a competition challenging groups to build a Mars Rover. Engineering students from the University of Michigan entered this worldwide competition. It was through the Mars Rover Project's association with Stewart & Stevenson that Generac came into...
SBC announced a $6 billion initiative to transform the company over the next three years into the largest single provider of advanced broadband services in America. The company's goal was to make super-fast, always-on Internet access available to nearly all of its wireline customers and create a platform to deliver...
Walker Wingsail Systems plc, previously based in Plymouth, design and manufacture next-generation yachts driven by wing sails and made from the very latest glass and carbon fiber composite technology. To advance their designs still further, LUSAS Composite was used to examine stress distribution in the trailing section of a proposed...
In six months of testing at the Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center RMOTC, a unique air pulse lifting system, developed by Petroleum Asset Management Co. PAMCO, lowered power consumption for lifting fluids in two shallow oil wells by 71%. Significantly, there was enough excess capacity with the 3-hp air compressor...
W & J Tod Ltd have been involved with fiber composites since 1948. LUSAS Composite is being used to analyze high technology composite solutions for uses in Marine, Civil, Aerospace, Defense and Mass Transport applications. One such application is a 3.7 meter diameter radome to suit a ship borne antenna....
Jackfield Bridge, located 1 km downstream of the Iron Bridge, is at the centre of the Severn Gorge World Heritage Site. It replaces the reinforced concrete Free Bridge, built by public subscription in 1909 that had suffered from decayed and spalling concrete and had been condemned following routine assessment in...
LUSAS Civil & Structural analysis software can be used to analyze a wide variety of cable stayed structures such as masts, towers, and cable stayed roofs. LUSAS has advanced cable elements that can be pre-stressed, carry no bending load, and exhibit catenary properties to allow accurate analysis of both self-weight...
To address the matter of significantly increasing the spans of future suspension bridges, Gordon Rose of Rose Associates has proposed the Space-Web Bridge concept. In this design, the aerodynamic and seismic stability of a suspension bridge is enhanced by the addition of a horizontal system and network of cables incorporating...
Government and industry view broadband technologies as critically important for national and economic development. Reports from many quarters indicate that these technologies can assist industries and regions to realize the benefits of a true information society. Research also indicates that one substantial obstacle to attaining a critical mass of broadband...
When the administrators of Fort Wayne, Indiana's St. Joseph Medical Center decided they needed more office space and a satellite surgery center at their Du Pont Medical Center facility, they concluded the existing building could not support such an undertaking. Geothermal Design Associates was enlisted to design the pond size...
In this paper Straw particleboard trade name Wheatboard was tested by a cabinetmaker. The cabinetmakers found that the product is less coarse than wood fiber particleboard, although the edges required several coats of paint for proper sealing. For woodworkers, the product was lighter than wood fiber particleboard, and was more...
