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Michael D. Miles, PE wrote:
> 
> I'm writing a purchase specification for a blower and the sample
> blowers we've tested all have some speed at which the rotor sets up an
> harmonic, causing some signifigant vibration of the entire blower
> housing and the equipment it is attached to.
> 
  You might have run into the first critical speed of the blower.  What 
is the running speed of the blower in relation to the speed which it had 
high vibration?
> I'd like to add a spec line referring to the maximum allowable
> vibration (or balance which is more precise in this situation).
> 
> Since vibration is defined frequency and amplitude(displacement), I
> can specify an amplitude limit over the entire speed range of the
> blower but I'm wondering if there might be other means of specifying a
> limit of vibration for the source device.
>   Is this a machine running at fixed speed?  If it is, you can specify a 
limit some where between 0.1 and 0.2 ips.  However, the limit depends on 
other factors such as machine configuration, bearing type, etc.
> If I try to characterize a balance specification, I'm not certain what
> is generally accepted for terms or description.  Any suggestions?
> 
> Entropy Happens!
> 
> Michael D. Miles, PE
> Consulting Design Engineer
> mdmiles@teleport.com
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I would like to heat a water-based, food product foam to convert it 
back to a liquid. The foam temperature is about 40 to 50 F and the 
liquid temperature needs to be about 120 to 140 F to 'break' the 
bubbles.
This is a type of 'phase' change, from foam to liquid and air.
Does anyone have any experiences that are related to this type
of problem? All suggestions would be welcomed!
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In article ,
Christopher Wright  wrote:
>In article <5115cl$gsj@arl-news-svc-6.compuserve.com>,
><71531.3213@compuserve.com> wrote:
>
>>I am currently using MCS/Nastran and have had to analyse a few models
>which included bolted joints.
>
>My approach is to clamp ...
   ... various and sundry ways of complicating one's life,
       as well as a reference to a bodily orifice deleted ...:-)
>
>Christopher Wright P.E.    
Might it not be a good idea to first ask the question, "What am
I trying to learn with this analysis?"  Or did I miss that one?
Tony Rizzo (slayer of windmills and sacred cows)
"I continue to lunge at the flailing beasts, with loyal Sancho at my side.  
On windless days we are victorious.  But the wind makes the beasts ever so 
fierce.  A strange magic they possess, which lets even the lightest breeze
breathe life into their fearsome forms."

Please, note the change of the E-mail address from the first posting of 
this message. Please use acmc@m36sci.lan.nrc.ca
Association for Coordinate Metrology Canada (ACMC) announces its Annual 
General Meeting on September 27-28, 1996 at Durham College in Oshawa, 
Ontario (near Toronto).  The registration fee, which includes two 
breakfacts, one lunch, one dinner, and coffee breaks is $110 CAD for 
members and $160 CAD for nonmembers.  The meeting is open to anyone with 
interest in Coordinate Metrology.
For more information:
ACMC
Institute for National Measurement Standards
National Research Council
Montreal Road, Building M36
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6
Tel.: (613) 991-0265
Fax: (613) 952-1394
E-mail: acmc@m36sci.lan.nrc.ca
September 27
8:00	Registration	Coffee, refreshments, muffins
8:30	Welcome 	Opening Address	
			Mr. Wesley Lowell
			ACMC Chairman
			General Motors, Oshawa
8:35	Technical Sessions, Papers and Discussions 
		International vocabulary of basic and general terms in metrology 
(VIM)‹ Discussion on principles. 
			Mr. Michel Portugais
			Institute for National Measurement Standards
			National Research Council of Canada
8:50	Technical Sessions, Papers and Discussions 
		Environmental conditions and their effect on CMM accuracy.
			Mr. Konrad Busch
			PTB ­ Germany
10:15	Coffee break
10:45	Technical Sessions, Papers and Discussions 
		Errors from touch trigger probes‹modelling and compensation.  The 
effect of CMM geometric errors on measurements.
			Prof. René Mayer
			Mechanical Engineering Department
			École Polytechnique ­ Montréal
12:00	Lunch
13:30	Technical Sessions, Papers and Discussions 
		Review of GD&T; ASME Y14.5-1994 standard for proper CMM part 
inspection.
			Prof. Michel Guillot
			The Industrial Metrology Laboratory
			Mechanical Engineering Department
			Laval University ­ Québec
15:00	Coffee break
15:30	Technical Sessions, Papers and Discussions
		Vendor panel discussion
		‹What's new with each vendor?
		‹Company visions for software development in the future.  
17:00	Open discussions.  	Vendor's time.
18:00	Dinner
September 28
8:15	Coffee, refreshments, muffins
8:30	Technical Sessions, Papers and Discussions
		CMM calibration and accreditation:  Why, when, and how.
			Dr. Steven Phillips
			Precision Engineering Division
			National Institute of Standards and Technology ­ 	USA
9:30	Technical Sessions, Papers and Discussions
		Gauge R & R study.
			Mr. Tony Deviveiros
			General Motors of Canada, Ste. Thérèse
		      and	
			Mr. Kostadin Doytchinov
			Dimensional Metrology Program
			Institute for National Measurement Standards
			National Research Council of Canada
10:15	Coffee break
10:45	ACMC Business
11:00	Technical Sessions, Papers and Discussions
		Open Forum‹Question and Answer Period.
		‹Bring your questions and your parts or drawings. 
		Note: Before the meeting, fax your questions, problems, diagrams, etc. 
to Bill Vetzel, General Motors of Canada‹
							phone:	(905) 644-2555
							fax:	(905) 644-2225

M.E. Moore wrote:
> 
> Vincent R. Johns wrote:
> >
> > (posted and emailed)
> >
> > John Hinkey  wrote:
> > >
> > > >atman  wrote:
> >   I believe that baseball
> > pitchers can throw balls at more than 10% of the speed of sound
> > (i.e., their hands presumably move that fast at some point), so it
> > seems not unreasonable that the end of a whip can move far faster
> > than that.
> >                               -- Vincent Johns
> 
> I think that TOP speed for a baseball is about 120 mph.
> 
> --
> M.E. Moore
> Los Alamos, NM
Actually it is less than 120 mph.  I suspect you are recalling the
April fools story that Sports Illustrated did in back sometime between
'84-'87 that reported the Mets getting some "natural pitcher" that could
throw a fastball at ~120 mph (he had mastered the "art of the pitch").  
I think the current record is something like 109-112 mph (and I think it
is held by Nolan Ryan... I'm sure someone can correct me here).  The 
record for a tennis serve (in the US Open) is something like 137 mph (by
Sampras).  This is quite about less than the speed of sound (~774 mph).  
-- 
                                                            - Mike
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I think there is an ISO standard for how to measure and compare vibrations
for a rnage frequences. Look there.
Stefan Norberg

In article <5133k7$pk8@nadine.teleport.com>, pcc60136@teleport.com (Rob) wrote:
>I need to calculate the theoretical bursting pressure of 
>a stayed and/or braced surface in a power (locomotive) boiler given the UTS of 
>the plate, thickness of the plate, and spacing (pitch) of staybolts and/or 
>rivets.
This type of construction is still used in heat exchangers. Suggest you
dig a copy of the Code out of a local University library. What it'll give
you is the allowable working pressure for the construction, not the burst
pressure, provided you follow all the rules for everything, including
material specification. The burst pressure is nominally 3-4 times the
allowable working pressure, but with flat surfaces, the edge conditions
make a big difference, so your value might be higher. If you don't follow
the rules it'll be lower.
Christopher Wright P.E.    |"They couldn't hit an elephant from
chrisw@skypoint.com        | this distance"   (last words of Gen.
___________________________| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania 1864)
http://www.skypoint.com/subscribers/chrisw

There are a large number of ceramic coatings that could be deposited on 
sharpened tools.  These coatings eventually wear off and the tool steel 
will then begin to loose its edge.  Nevertheless, with regard to working 
cork, you might obtain a improvement in duty time between sharpening on 
the order of 100% to 900%.  For example, alumina is a well known coating 
that is relatively easy to apply.  Another example is titanium 
nitride.  The only drawback is that the tools 
would have to be routed to a centally located deposition shop 
before being returned to the 
workers.  

Hi,
The faculty at my university are working on a wind powered water 
reservior oxygenator.  A shaft will connect a vertical axis wind turbine to an 
underwater impeller-deflector assemply through a floating pontoon and the 
whole thing will be anchored to the bottom.  The deflecter is basically a 
concaved cone that deflects the water coming from the rotating 
impeller away from the bottom.
I thought perhaps that the impeller-deflecter assembly could be replaced by a 
radial impeller as in a centrifugal pump but this may be too expensive to 
manufacture.
Can anyone suggest what types of materials they should consider for the 
impeller, the wind turbine blades, the shaft anf the flow deflecter?

I'm presently developing a valve to control the flow of gravity fed
granular materials to 1% accuracy. 
Clam shell - deflected flow/load cell concept.
Do you know of similar devices??? needs???
email or call john @ 1-800-879-7955  

In article <01bb9f7c.ca713b00$d4e263ce@youngkj.halifax.com>, "John E
Youngk"  wrote:
> I'm presently developing a valve to control the flow of gravity fed
> granular materials to 1% accuracy. 
> Clam shell - deflected flow/load cell concept.
> Do you know of similar devices??? needs???
> email or call john @ 1-800-879-7955  
What is the application your trying to adpt your design for.
Is the bin (I assume) garenteed to be a mass flow design?
What is the minimum/maximum flow rates you are trying to acheive and with
what material.
Bill McBride
Center for Bulk Solids and Particulate Technologies.
wmcbride@mail.newcastle.edu.au

posting test

I have a question regarding the behavior of air flow in a duct when
the flow is not fully developed.  Specifically the problem is one of
an axial flow fan.  The flow patterns I am recieving are 'W' shaped,
that is the pressure wave is greatest at a position of 1/2 the radius
of the tube, almost negative at the center and substantially less at
the outer edges of the tube.  What my problem is, I do not know if
this type of flow pattern will affect the outcome if I try to
calculate overall outflow velocity of the air.  I understand it is
hard to answer without at least a drawing, but sorry maybe when the
networking systems get more graphical in nature.  I would appreciate
any information you could provide on the subject.
Robert Gilster  W.S.U.

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Hello !
I am looking for a fast linear actuator to move a mirror parallel to the 
optical axes in a Michelson Interferometer.
The desired specifications are:
* optical parallelity (tilt less than 1 micrometer)
* Displacement of Mirror: 1mm
* Oszillating frequency: about 100 Hz (Actuatorspeed about: 0.2 m/s = 8 
in/s )
* Power: the actuator has to move a mirror with diameter 30 mm in air 
(mirror-weight: 1 g)
If anyone knows where i can buy such an actuator, or how i could build 
it, please send an email to me.
Thank You !
My address:
Dipl.-Ing. Wolfgang Maerzinger
Institut für Halbleiterphysik
Universitaet Linz
Altenbergerstr. 69
A - 4040 Linz
AUSTRIA
email:	w.milz@server.fkp.uni-linz.ac.at

Subject:  Publishing Scholarly Work on the Web -- opinion anyone?
I'd appreciate any pro and con arguments on the subject of this letter. 
Since this matter touches upon all the sci.*, many comp.* and other
newsgroups, I'll try to cross post this message.  
The TechExpo Web site would like to open up a ScienceExpo section
dedicated to the publication of scholarly works in HTML format (TechExpo
already provides an array of services to the science & technology
community; see http://www.techexpo.com).  
			THE RATIONALE IS AS FOLLOWS:
1) The peer-review process of scientific journals may take from many
months to over a year.  
2) The review process is often arbitrary in nature.
3) The access to the work is limited because many libraries do not carry
the journal, or it is too expensive for an individual subscription
4) A journal in any field carries work that is much broader than that of
individual researcher or engineer so important papers are often obscured
because they do not quite belong in any particular journal.
5)  Because of the multi-disciplinary nature of technology and science,
some topic have applicability in more than one field, and no journal or
conference may cover such broad fields.
6) Papers posted at ScienceExpo will be searchable not only by key
words, but the author will be able to select any number of applicability
categories from a list of over 400 existing categories (see the TechExpo
classification schedule). 
7)  papers will be searchable via all the Web search engines.  
8)  The author can still submit the posted paper to refereed journals.
			PUBLICATIONS AT ScienceExpo WILL:
a)  Appear within 48 hours of submittal
b)  The paper will be immediately available to the entire community
c) The paper will indexed and could be found by all researchers via the
Internet search engines, or internal ScienceExpo search tools (using any
keyword, author name, institution name, etc.)
d) The author can select any number of fields of science and technology
form a list of over 400 (see TechExpo Classification Schedule) to reach
the target audience much broader than any one journal can
e) Authors can hot-link all references directly from their paper
f)  On-line discussion of papers can be conducted within the appropriate
UseNet groups
g) Papers may be copies and printed or forwarded to others
electronically or by other means.  
			SOME PROPOSED GROUND RULES:
(A) Work submitted must be of original nature and of value to science or
technology
(B) The paper must carry the full names of the authors and institution,
including address, phone number, fax, and e-mail.
(C) Ethical conduct:  Papers posted at ScienceExpo should be treated as
any other publication.  They represent the scientific work of colleagues
and should be treated as such.  If information is quoted, the proper
reference should be given credit.  
(D) When copying, forwarding, etc., the entire paper, including the
authors information, institution, as well as the ScienceExpo source
should be included.  
Obviously ScienceExpo will not referee papers; the authors' names and
the institution they represent are put on the line -- so posting papers
ON-LINE should be given as much or more care and thought as submitting a
paper to prestigious journals
			A FEW TECHNICALITIES:
(i) The entire paper must be submitted in HTML, and graphs, figures and
charts in gif or jpg format  (this is a deviation from common formats
requiring PostScript or TEX, to allow viewing papers using the
newsreader built into popular browsers, and to allow indexing such
papers by all the Web search engines) 
(ii) Maximum size for text files and graphics will have to be observed
(iii) Equation should be edited using the HTML specifications, or
scanned and pasted as graphics files
(iv) It is the author's responsibility to secure authorization of the
institution and/or the research funding authority to submit the
publication.  
Finally here is the most sticky point.  If the service if totally free
of charge, I'm concerned there will be a deluge of frivolous
publishing.  I consider a fee structure to act as a "potential
Barrier."   A low, yet significant fee (hopefully) will discourage the
unwarranted publications, but will not be too high to discourage worthy
publications.  Perhaps academic institutions will receive a discount,
but corporations will pay somewhat higher fee also to defray the costs
of the service.  
So one question is whether a fee imposed on publication will completely
stifle interest?  Is for example, a one-time publication fee of $400 for
a corporation, and $100 for academia too high a fee?
One more comment as to why should TechExpo do this.  In my opinion
technical societies (and I belong to a few) could do the job but the
problem of cross discipline relevance will not be solved.  So being
unaffiliated with any technical society or technical magazine, TechExpo
is a neutral ground most appropriate for this job.  What's more,
TechExpo is already providing technology and science information for
almost two years.
Is this idea totally freakish?
Well, the floor is now open for debate.
Private communications are welcomed but posted comments/debate is
preferred.  
Nahum Gat, Ph.D.
President
Opto-Knowledge Systems, Inc. (OKSI)
Web:  http://www.techexpo.com/WWW/opto-knowledge
E-mail:	oksi@cerfnet.com
		or
	nahum@techexpo.com

Michael White  writes:
> M.E. Moore wrote:
> > Vincent R. Johns wrote:
> > >   I believe that baseball
> > > pitchers can throw balls at more than 10% of the speed of sound
> > > (i.e., their hands presumably move that fast at some point), so it
> > > seems not unreasonable that the end of a whip can move far faster
> > > than that.
> > 
> > I think that TOP speed for a baseball is about 120 mph.
Which *is* more than 10% of the speed of sound last time I checked.
> 
> Actually it is less than 120 mph.  I suspect you are recalling the
> April fools story that Sports Illustrated did in back sometime between
> '84-'87 that reported the Mets getting some "natural pitcher" that could
> throw a fastball at ~120 mph (he had mastered the "art of the pitch").  
> I think the current record is something like 109-112 mph (and I think it
> is held by Nolan Ryan... I'm sure someone can correct me here).  The 
> record for a tennis serve (in the US Open) is something like 137 mph (by
> Sampras).  This is quite about less than the speed of sound (~774 mph).  
Still looks to me like more than 10% of the speed of sound. Anyway,
tennis is *irrelevant*. This post was about whether it is possible for
the tip of a whip to travel faster than the speed of sound, and the
baseball comparison was supposed to show that you can let your hand
travel at more than 10% of that, and so with the leverage the whip
gives this could well support the theory. In tennis you are
a) using the racket as a cheating lever moving faster than your hand
b) transferring impulse to the tennis ball in an elastic way, making
it possible for the tennis ball to depart at a faster rate than the
racket was moving before hitting the ball (don't know whether this
happens, but it certainly is possible).
In baseball, you have no elastic interactions or levers of that kind,
and so we can indeed induce about hand speed pretty correctly.
-- 
David Kastrup     Institut fuer Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
Email: dak@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de  Telephon: +49-234-700-5570

71531.3213@compuserve.com wrote:
> 
> I am currently using MCS/Nastran and have had to analyse a few models which included bolted joints.
> 
> I have tried hexagonal holes at the diameter of the bolt body, with rigis elements jointing 
adjacent "bolted" nodes,
> but the localized stresses look to be unrealistic.  So I tried an outer hexagonal ring to 
match the bolt's head diameter,
> with rigid elements (again high stresses) and then beam elements (better) jointing at the outer 
ring, with the inner ring
> left dangling.  I have also had problems with adjacent plate structures passing through each 
other based on the
> external loading consditions, and laid in some compressive-gap type elements to shore things up.
> 
> Am I nuts, or what?  Is there a simpler (yet still effective) way to model bolted joints?  Is 
there a range of
> approaches applicable for the class of problem (shear loading, slip critical, tension only, 
bolting flanges, and
> so on....
> 
> Anxiously awaiting a reply...
> Steve Sywak
If you model a node to node connection, then you 
model a point support which constitutes a 
singularity in your model. Your displacements will 
then depend on mesh size and/or p-order of your 
elements rather than on properties of your 
structure. With mesh refinemnt, your displacements 
will converge to infinity. If you give me your fax 
# I'll fax you a related example from StressCheck 
manual.
If you really want to model bolt joints, model them 
as features of final shape, not points.
Paul Kurowski
kurowska@julina.uwo.ca

Subject:  Publishing Scholarly Work on the Web -- opinions?
I'd appreciate any pro and con arguments on the subject of this letter. 
Since this matter touches upon all the sci.*, many comp.* and other
newsgroups, I'll try to cross post this message.  
The TechExpo Web site would like to open up a ScienceExpo section
dedicated to the publication of scholarly works in HTML format (TechExpo
already provides an array of services to the science & technology
community; see http://www.techexpo.com).  
			THE RATIONALE IS AS FOLLOWS:
1) The peer-review process of scientific journals may take from many
months to over a year.  
2) The review process is often arbitrary in nature.
3) The access to the work is limited because many libraries do not carry
the journal, or it is too expensive for an individual subscription
4) A journal in any field carries work that is much broader than that of
individual researcher or engineer so important papers are often obscured
because they do not quite belong in any particular journal.
5)  Because of the multi-disciplinary nature of technology and science,
some topic have applicability in more than one field, and no journal or
conference may cover such broad fields.
6) Papers posted at ScienceExpo will be searchable not only by key
words, but the author will be able to select any number of applicability
categories from a list of over 400 existing categories (see the TechExpo
classification schedule). 
7)  papers will be searchable via all the Web search engines.  
8)  The author can still submit the posted paper to refereed journals.
			PUBLICATIONS AT ScienceExpo WILL:
a)  Appear within 48 hours of submittal
b)  The paper will be immediately available to the entire community
c) The paper will indexed and could be found by all researchers via the
Internet search engines, or internal ScienceExpo search tools (using any
keyword, author name, institution name, etc.)
d) The author can select any number of fields of science and technology
form a list of over 400 (see TechExpo Classification Schedule) to reach
the target audience much broader than any one journal can
e) Authors can hot-link all references directly from their paper
f)  On-line discussion of papers can be conducted within the appropriate
UseNet groups
g) Papers may be copies and printed or forwarded to others
electronically or by other means.  
			SOME PROPOSED GROUND RULES:
(A) Work submitted must be of original nature and of value to science or
technology
(B) The paper must carry the full names of the authors and institution,
including address, phone number, fax, and e-mail.
(C) Ethical conduct:  Papers posted at ScienceExpo should be treated as
any other publication.  They represent the scientific work of colleagues
and should be treated as such.  If information is quoted, the proper
reference should be given credit.  
(D) When copying, forwarding, etc., the entire paper, including the
authors information, institution, as well as the ScienceExpo source
should be included.  
Obviously ScienceExpo will not referee papers; the authors' names and
the institution they represent are put on the line -- so posting papers
ON-LINE should be given as much or more care and thought as submitting a
paper to prestigious journals
			A FEW TECHNICALITIES:
(i) The entire paper must be submitted in HTML, and graphs, figures and
charts in gif or jpg format  (this is a deviation from common formats
requiring PostScript or TEX, to allow viewing papers using the
newsreader built into popular browsers, and to allow indexing such
papers by all the Web search engines) 
(ii) Maximum size for text files and graphics will have to be observed
(iii) Equation should be edited using the HTML specifications, or
scanned and pasted as graphics files
(iv) It is the author's responsibility to secure authorization of the
institution and/or the research funding authority to submit the
publication.  
Finally here is the most sticky point.  If the service if totally free
of charge, I'm concerned there will be a deluge of frivolous
publishing.  I consider a fee structure to act as a "potential
Barrier."   A low, yet significant fee (hopefully) will discourage the
unwarranted publications, but will not be too high to discourage worthy
publications.  Perhaps academic institutions will receive a discount,
but corporations will pay somewhat higher fee also to defray the costs
of the service.  
So one question is whether a fee imposed on publication will completely
stifle interest?  Is for example, a one-time publication fee of $400 for
a corporation, and $100 for academia too high a fee?
One more comment as to why should TechExpo do this.  In my opinion
technical societies (and I belong to a few) could do the job but the
problem of cross discipline relevance will not be solved.  So being
unaffiliated with any technical society or technical magazine, TechExpo
is a neutral ground most appropriate for this job.  What's more,
TechExpo is already providing technology and science information for
almost two years.
Is this idea totally freakish?
Well, the floor is now open for debate.
Private communications are welcomed but posted comments/debate is
preferred.  
Nahum Gat, Ph.D.
President
Opto-Knowledge Systems, Inc. (OKSI)
Web:  http://www.techexpo.com/WWW/opto-knowledge
E-mail:	oksi@cerfnet.com
		or
	nahum@techexpo.com

I am looking for comments/opinions from anybody who has a working
familiarity with KUBRIX, a parametric strutured/unstructured hex mesh
generator.
Thanks in advance...

As the subject. Is there anyone who could give me some information about
the accurate of the DRM?
Thanks in advance!
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I think that the publication of scholarly work on the Web is a great idea.
It offers a very convenient way for researchers to get feedback on their
work in a more timely manner than publication in journals (that can take as long
as 2 years). The publication site should also offer a forum for the authors
to receive comments from ther readers.
James Outlaw
Research Associate
Ground Water Institute
The Univeristy of Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee 38152
jamie@ce5.gwi.memphis.edu
http://gwint1.gwi.memphis.edu

I urge those interested in this topic to get ahold of William Glaze's editorial
in the July issue of Enivronmental Science and Technology (v. 30, p. 273A-274A).
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Who makes the smallest commersial turbocharger and how small is it?
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   Remember the values are for new and protected 7XXX series aluminum. If
you use it in an outdoor or similar environment without cladding those
values will drop with time.