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Smart boxes will have microprocessors that utilize embedded algorithms to analyze the signals as they are from the sensor. If the embedded algorithm detects pre-programmed conditions then an alert is to be sent from the unit in the field to a Smartphone. Software that will carry out functions will be designed and will be able to capture signals from sensors and send them to a Smartphones of a farmer.
For any heat recovery system to be successful in compatibility with the turbo steamer for Toyota land-cruiser V8 where it will use, the design and modeling take into account that heat recovery system that can withstand various environmental during its use (Endo, 2007). It has been modeled using SolidWorks software focusing on appearance.
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A flame test is a quick way for producing characteristic colors for metallic ions. In the current experiment, different colors were emitted when the samples were heated in a hot flame. The colors indicate the identity of unknown compound samples. Metallic ions emit different colors when their respective metal salt is heated in a hot flame.
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Based on the evidence suggested so far, there are various factors that may have contributed to this collapse. One of them involves the sizes of the washers on the hanger rods. Washers were too small for them to hold the hold large weight. Investigation showed that the rods with the washers went through the beam (Taylor and Moncarz, 2000).
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Engine reliability, as suggested by many authors, can be accessed based on Meant Time to Failure and Mean Time before Failure criteria. For those components in the aircraft`s engine regarded as not repairable, such as the electronic system, Mean Time To Failure gets used. However, for parts that can get repaired, Meat Time before Repair is used.
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Mechanical ventilation has several advantages. First, it optimizes the limited space at the stairwell. Next, it is also cost-efficient due to its potential to eliminate smoke from the stairwell and make effective use of the condensed ventilation shaft areas. Additionally, it is less complex compared to the pressurization system.
Data communication can be described as any activity that allows the passage of any type or form of data from one or many senders or sources to one or more receivers or destinations, that is delivered in a form that can be easily understood and using computers or computer systems. The function of computers is to generate information.
SCOSS is aimed at providing advice to constructors, developers, and other relevant groups on how to reduce disaster occurrence by erecting safe buildings. Moreover, they offer information on satisfactory design, construction, and inspect infrastructural projects so as to reduce any possible occurrence of disasters.
The following paper intends to discuss the collapse of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel, which occurred in July 1981. Hundreds of people had gathered on this particular day for the ‘tea dance’ –which was a traditional event. On the night of the accident, the Hyatt Regency Hotel, at its atrium lobby, was hosting a tea-dance party.
The Polymerizing-complexing technique forms metal complexes that are stable through increasing polymerization. Additionally, there are scores of process parameters in the sol-gel process and other synthesizing techniques that affect the ITO powder properties, particularly its stoichiometric ratio, reactant pH, amongst others.
Regarding individualism, specific engineers intended to work abroad may come from a workforce that is comparatively individualistic. This is specifically so for engineers from Western countries, such as the United States, Australia, or the United Kingdom, according to Hofstede's dimensions of working in international culture.
This paper delved into establishing the recent innovative achievements of Baker Hughes Incorporated, the major innovative process adopted and implemented by the company where the supply chain process was looked at, the diffusion and enterprise associated with this process, and the company’s cross-cultural engagement policies.
It is highly recommended that the company employs organizations’ cross-cultural engagement in order to enhance the transfer of knowledge thus remaining highly innovative. It is also recommended that the company maintains close relations with other innovative companies (from all fields) in order to remain relevant in the field of innovation.
The issues of environmental sustainability are increasingly becoming important due to its significance. The environmental problems are contributing to other adverse effects such as climate change and greenhouse gasses. The emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere has negative effects on the environment and hence the importance of sustainability.
The undrained strength on confining stress is independent because an increase in pressure in the cell without allowing drainage affects the rising pore pressure by the same amount. Therefore, the effective stress remains unchanged and the subsequent strength remains unaffected because the effective stresses determine the behavior of the soil.
The piston also participates in the compression stroke where its upward movement compresses the air/air-fuel mixture to attain the required compression ratio. In the power stroke, the piston converts the produced energy into the right form of energy and transmits it to the crankshaft and flywheel, and other targets.
Training is an important process for human resources. Training the workforce on the possible occurrence of different accidents plays a mediating role in improving response to industrial accidents. Replicating possible industrial actions, through industrial training, equips the workers on the preferred approach that considerably reduces the loss of human life.
We found that our laboratory sensors don’t have the ranges necessary to be implemented in a real-life traffic junction’s alarm system, as the operating ranges of our sensors generally didn’t lie within the values that should set a warning off. More heavy-duty equipment with greater ranges would be used in the traffic junction’s alarm system.
Plastic is a material comprising of synthetic or semi-synthetic organics that are malleable and can be transformed into solid objects with different shapes (Duron, et al, 2008). According to Duron et al (2008), plastics are organic polymers of high molecular mass, and can also consist of other substances.
According to Brannigan (2007), predicting compressive failure is not easy since failure can occur at a very small scale such as buckling or compression of individual fibers. Brannigan (2007) argued that, when a compressive failure occurs in sandwich panels, the skin faces may be wrinkled or it may cause instability of the panel.
Steel is an alloy of carbon and iron. It is a strong material that has been used widely as a building material. It has high compression and tensile strength. They can be produced in different sizes and shapes, ranging from thin sheets to heavy columns and beams. They are used for roofing, in-floor, or on walls.
The different types of collapse hazards include weak columns, walls, and beams that lack adequate strength to support the structure. Freestanding walls and loose chimneys may easily fall due to a lack of support or wind load. Overhead hazards include loose debris, sections of concrete that could be hanging precariously on reinforcing bars.
It is important for firefighters to have an understanding of the basic types of construction materials and recognize how these materials affect fire growth and spread. The most frequently used construction materials include plastics, gypsum board, glass, aluminum, steel, concrete, masonry, engineered wood products, and wood.
Hinckley Point C has been proposed as a major site for nuclear power stations. Hinckley is located in the southwest Leicestershire, near Nuneaton Warwickshire, England. The town is under Hinckley Borough Council. There are other two power plants already built at Hinckley but the Point C power plant will exceed them in size and power production.
The paper "Land Studies: Perth Stadium" is a wonderful example of a case study on engineering and construction. The nature of the project is a stadium. The stadium is called Perth Stadium and is located in Perth, Western Australia. The Perth Stadium will be used for multipurpose games and events (Government of Western Australia 2015).
Throughout engineering aspects, reliability is defined as a natural consequence of failure in the matter of subject. This reflects the “true “and “correct “principle was the practice before formal in analyzing data collection and analyzing for failure thus usually be self-evident and leads inevitably to design modifications.
Given that the walls in the smaller compartments are near the sources of fire, this factor is prone to accelerate the growth of the fire. This gives another reason why smaller compartments would burn faster than larger compartments. Also important to note is that as the wall burns, the fire expands to other areas of the compartments.
The fire lasted for 30 minutes between 2.00 and 2:30 on the 27th of January 2013 and killed 242 people and injured 630 others. It occurred in Santa Maria; the Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Most of the casualties of the fire were college students who were holding a fresher’s ball in the hotel. The fire was the second-worst in the history of Brazil.
The design of a building is the first and probably the most crucial stage in the life cycle of construction. The success of other stages of the life cycle, construction and post-construction, is dependent on how well the design phase is executed. It is in the design phase that the method of construction and the materials to be used are defined.
BIM has been confirmed to work as a digital database. This is due to its high capabilities that are made up of comprehensive building information, work simulation, 3D visualization, and a schedule control characteristic (Chang, 2002). Past studies have shown strong potentials and enhanced efficiency in integrated BIM while evaluating the carbon emission during construction (Mah, 2012).
Construction methods are based on the buildings with low carbon emissions into the environment and have excellent ratings on the breams used. Higher rating breaks make the building structures to be stronger and can withstand forces of nature like earthquakes and tremors without the buildings collapsing.
In this paper, a method of evaluation of a building design is formed. To come up with the best method buildings of similar geometrical aspects but constructed of different materials are considered. In this method we have to analyze aspects of carbon emissions, materials used putting into consideration environmental and economic constraints.
Sandwich structures can be classified into various forms depending on the materials used to manufacture, but the main classification is dependent on the core configuration. The core can be made of varied architecture or materials, but they can be put into four categories that include: (a) foam core (b) corrugated core (c) honeycomb core, and (d) web core.
Sir Tom Finney Sports Centre aims to see to it that all students, university staff, and visitors who use the facility are safe from risks of fire. The sports center upholds fire safety procedures and systems to protect the sports facility, its occupants and to ensure that the fire systems are well monitored and maintained in compliance with the requirements.
In the UK, there have been a series of innovations by builders in exploring alternative construction methods and materials. The reasons for such innovations include but not limited to the finished look, ease of manual handling of materials, the eco-credentials, ability to source materials as well as the availability of contractors and experts.
In the production, design, modeling, and simulation of a Motorcycle Rear Suspension various procedures and testing are done to ensure that the Motorcycle Rear Suspension produced is going to function at the minimum without any effect. The simulation has shown that Adam’s software can use the model for the Motorcycle Rear Suspension.
Safety standards that have been introduced after these accidents indicated a step-change in the approach being adapted to safety regulation. Previous approaches have primarily been focused on the prescriptive safety requirements. With the introduction of safety cases, the responsibility has been shifted back to the operators.
The combustion of half a gallon of toluene for instance can destroy an ordinary building in minutes. As matter of fact, fires and explosions are common causes of accidents therefore there is a need to understand the difference and similarities between the two. The first distinction is the rate at which they release energy.
The elevation is seen as a rectangular drawn around unprotected areas like windows and doors. A table is used to obtain the relevant boundary for the rectangular surface. A trace of a plan is obtained by drawing other building elevations, such that the area outside the trace is not included in the calculations.
Any section that is to be tested for example the wall is placed in the direction of interest either horizontally or vertically in an oven. Temperature devices that record the temperature are then placed on the outside on the outside of the material which eventually records the temperature of the mixture.
It is essential to state that airplane wings generate lift by conservation of momentum. The main purpose of the wing is to deflect air downward, giving it a downward momentum component. The increased backward momentum of the gases as they are expelled is accompanied by an increased momentum of the plane.
Fire testing is a phenomenon that is used by most engineers in determining the rate at which a building or a structure is capable of withstanding or resisting a particular temperature at a particular time and at a given environment when the same structure is fully exposed to a particular pressure and the structure still withstands its functions.
Fire resistance is the ability of an element of load-bearing structures in construction. Therefore, tests carried out on these elements of construction or structure and building materials to ascertain their abilities to meet the minimum threshold required for fire resistance capabilities is known as fire resistance testing.
As a sign of good faith between workers and employers, the formation of a union is vital in defending the interests of both parties. In particular, the mechanism would be used to investigate the occurrences alleged and to form a forum in which both sides can be engaged to find amicable solutions (Johnson, 2003).
Fire resistance testing is aimed at determining the ability to build construction to withstand a given temperature when exposed to fire at a given time and specific pressure and retains its fire separating functions. The test may be carried out on some of the building parts such as the walls, ceiling, columns, beams, and doors.
Different legislations and researchers have come up with different explanations and applications. BS7974 explores the principle of ASET and RSET, BS9999 derives some of the concepts from BS7974 whereas ADB offers some of the building regulations applicable in both the UK and Wales on matters to do with providing means of escape when fire arises.
In most cases, this involves the modeling or calculation of scenarios that address all or several parts of the fire system. Using the same principle, this assessment bases its assumption on the premise that designing the protected routes is dependent on the designated use of the building and the risks of fire inherent in that particular use.
It is important to note that one cannot always design and obtain the goal of total safety among the occupants. This is with respect to fire safety strategies. A finite risk would not lack in terms of injury or even damage to property. All fire safety solution has been put in place since the prediction of outcomes of fire outbreaks is difficult.
It is important to understand the basic components that are in the aircraft’s cockpit. The information provided by the components in the aircraft cockpit enables the pilot to understand the flying requirements and condition of the flight. Thus, the pilot should be in a position to read analyze and understand the information in these instruments.
Using the earlier Gypflax and gypsum samples, we repeated the steps that were done, but we reduced the total Gypsum by 10% and instead added an equivalent amount of sand of 10%. Using the dry Gypsum in the bowl, we then mixed it and left it for two minutes to settle then we added some water that had been calculated into the bowl to dry the mixture.