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Conference Announcement and Call for Papers
_______________________________________________________________________
1997 ANSYS Conference
Practical Finite Element Analysis Applications in Industry
MELBOURNE-AUSTRALIA
Sponsors:
Worley FEA
Providing Engineering Solutions to Industry
ANSYS, Inc
Silicon Graphics Computers
Quantas
_______________________________________________________________________
25 - 27 June 1997
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Analysis?
Many industries are realising that yesterday's answers are not always tomorrow's solutions. 
 Companies are re-engineering their design through manufacturing processes 
with finite element analysis (FEA) design and simulation technology to provide 
better products, faster, and at a lower cost.
The ANSYS family of products provides a very flexible engineering environment; 
 it is integrated with more CAD packages than any other analysis package, and 
runs on a wide range of hardware from PCs to supercomputers.  Worley FEA, 
exclusive distributors for ANSYS in Australia and NZ, invites you to the 1997 
ANSYS Conference to see and hear about practical engineering applications of 
FEA technology.  This three-day event will be held at the Sheraton Towers, 
Southgate, Melbourne on June 25-27, 1997.  The first day will be devoted to 
training on advanced ANSYS capabilities conducted by ANSYS, Inc developers.
This conference is your best opportunity to meet ANSYS users from a range of industries 
around Australia, and see how others are using the program.  ANSYS, Inc 
developers and management, and Worley FEA's team of experienced analysts will 
be avaialble to discuss how ANSYS can help with your paritcular design needs.  
Who Should Attend?
This conference is geared towards design engineers and FE analysts, as well as business
 and engineering managers.  Attendees can learn more about the ANSYS program's 
capabilities, using FEA to simplify their product design / verification and 
prototyping processes, and maximize the benefits of their CAE/CAD investment.
Conference program at a glance
	am	pm	evening
Tues 1 July 1997			Registration
Wed 25 June1997	Registration
Training seminar:
Upgrading to ANSYS 5.3	Training seminar
Explicit dynamics and metalforming simulation using LSDYNA-3D	
Thurs 26 June1997	Registration
Keynote address
Technical Session 1	Technical Session 2	Conference Dinner
Fri 27 June 1997	Technical Session 3	Technical Session 4
Close	
Sat 28 June 1997	Social Program
Call for papers
Papers describing ANSYS applications in industry and research are invited.  
Abstracts of no more thatn 300 words should be submitted to the Conference 
Secretariat as soon as possible, or at the latest by 31 January 1997. 
Abstracts should clearly state the title, objectives, assumptions, methodology 
and results of the project, to be detailed in the paper.  Completed 
manuscripts must be submitted to the Conference Secretariat no later than 15 
April 1997.  The Proceedings of the Conference will be available at the time 
of the Conference.
Abstracts and manuscripts should be emailed/posted/faxed to the Conference Secretariat:
Dorel Iosif
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Summary of Deadlines
Submission of Abstract	31 January 1997
Notification of acceptance of Abstract	28 February 1997
Submission of final manuscript	15 April 1997
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Review Panel	
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Dorel Iosif
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Geraldine Campbell
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Saturday and Sunday with late night shopping on Fridays

Robert Perkins wrote:
> 
> This sounds facetious, but it's not.
> 
> In hearing aids, at least in mine, there is a polyethelene
> guard over the end of the part that goes into the ear canal.
> This guard is used to keep ear wax from entering the hearing
> aid unit.  The guard, however, when it does its job collects
> ear wax and is usually discarded.
> 
> I would like to drop these ear wax guards into a solution that
> will dissolve the wax.
> 
> I've tried alcohol but it doesn't work well.  What do you
> think of trying boiling alcohol?
> 
> Other ideas?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Bob Perkins
> bobp@netcom.com
> .
> .
> .How about Debrox? We used to put this in our children's ears, when they 
were smaller of course, to break down the wax and it is available over 
the counter at the pharmacy. Just a thought.
-- 
Art Jantzen
Vision Research, Inc.
Wayne, NJ USA
art@visiblesolutions.com      http://www.visiblesolutions.com

Hi
I'm a student at IST in Portugal and I need a program that cracks the
hardware key that limits Cosmos/M program from using all of it's capacities.
Thanks in advance
Antonio Paes
PS: Please email to L36373@alfa.ist.utl.pt as I don't come too often to newsgroups.

Could someone please educate me as to what units most shock manufacturers 
quote their damping rates in?  A vibrations text that I'm using uses units of 
mass per time (eg. kg/s or lbs/s).  I need to be able to convert these units 
to those used by the shock manufacturer so I can select the proper rate for my 
application.  Some rates that I've seen include in.lbs or just numbers.  What 
do these mean?
Your help would most kindly be apprecuiated.
Thanks,
Andy Harbin
Senoir Mechanical Engineering Student
Formula MUN, Suspension Design
Memorial University of Newfoundland
CANADA

Robert Perkins wrote:
> ...I would like to drop these ear wax guards into a solution that
> will dissolve the wax.
> 
> I've tried alcohol but it doesn't work well.  What do you
> think of trying boiling alcohol?
> 
> Other ideas?
Try hydrogen peroxide.
Ken Havlinek

Andy Harbin (andy@engr.mun.ca) wrote:
: Could someone please educate me as to what units most shock manufacturers 
: quote their damping rates in?  A vibrations text that I'm using uses units of 
Let's see, dampers produce a force roughly proportional to velocity
in opposition to the motion.  So we get
    F   kg m   m   kg    Looks like kg/s is just what you want after
    - = ---- / - = --    cancelling out units.  Kind of like expressing
    v    s2    s   s     mileage in inverse acres!
Dave Heisterberg

RONALD MARTIN wrote:
> 
> I am a structural engineer who has a Client asking for general
> information on stress-relieving with the use of sub-resonance
> vibrations.  I am not familiar with it (out of my field) but am
> trying to get some basic opinions about the validity of its use.  He
> is thinking about buying the equipement.
> 
> He is particularly interested in its use on rolls with protective
> coatings to be applied to them.
> 
> Some of his questions involve:
>          1) is the welding better on it
>          2) is it better in this appliation than thermal stress
>             relieving
> 
> If anybody has any info --it will be appreciated.There have several articles written in the ASME about the vibration 
stress relief HOAX.  If any manufacturer suggests that their system will 
do the job, suggest that a blind test be made.  Three specimens should be 
stress relieved using normal methods and three specimens using the 
vibration method.  Send the specimens to an independent lab for testing. 
I'll bet that the vibration-stress relief people will not submit to the 
tests.  It has been tried before and no relief was found.
Thermal methods of stress relief brings the state of stress within a body 
to a point where the material reaches a transition (phase) temperature.  
A relaxation takes place and the state of the material is "normalized."  
In order for vibration methods to work, a cold working process must take 
place.  This means that the orginal residual state is masked by a higher 
state of stress.  Since we are dealing with an oscillatory motion, the 
effective stress will be both tension and compression.  If only tensile 
residual stresses were present in the first place, then the induced 
compressive stresses from the vibration would cause additional and 
unforseen problems.  For most steels, they follow the max. shear failure 
law.  This would create a failure  in another direction.
If you are trying to eliminate the progressive growth of cracks, I have 
tried a laser induced method that has shown to double the life of the 
specimen.
Richard L. Citerley, P.E.
209-295-8655
citerley@volcano.net

Antonio Gladstone B.J. Paes (l36373@alfa.ist.utl.pt) wrote:
: hardware key that limits Cosmos/M program from using all of it's capacities.
: Thanks in advance
: Antonio Paes
Presumably when this guy graduates he will do all his
engineering/programming for free because everybody will expect to copy his
work for nothing.
I'm not sure anybody would hire him though - certainly not SRAC

Could anyone please supply me with details on the vibration limits in mm/s of 
siemens motor in the axial and radial directions. The specs are
355kw, 50hz, 445A, 525V, 3600rpm
the serial no appears to be either :
	1 N 133 ICI F
or	465512/1993 MB3 ICI F
We are currently experiencing vibrations of the order 
of 2.5mm/s radially and 6mm/s axially

Paul Kurowski wrote:
> 
> Would anybody know where can I buy a low power (0.5
> - 1.5 HP) gasoline engine, that attaches to a
> regular bicycle ? I remember such little engines
> from Europe, but in Ontario, Canada they are
> unheard of. I have been looking hard to find one
> for my son but had no luck.
> 
> Any advice would be mostly appreciated.
> 
> Paul Kurowski
> 
> e-mail:
> kurowska@julian.uwo.ca
Your cheapest, readiest supply may be a gasoline powered weed-eater, 
cannabalize the engine!
Good Luck;
Dan Bollinger
Industrial Designer

Doug Krokosz wrote:
> 
> One of our design courses has us in groups working with several local
> manufacturers.
> 
> Our project is specifically to design a system to install/remove a 440
> kg air handling unit in a bus without any threaded fasteners in
> difficult to access locations (the back bottom or side).
> 
> any ideas.
> 
> thanks
Try Victaulic connectors, used a lot in irragation systems, and Air 
Handling Systems proprietary connectors at 1-800-438-7135.
Why not hose or flex matal tubing?  Are you familiar with the small 
diameter (about 2"), high velocity HVAC supply units for homes?
Good Luck;
Dan Bollinger
Industrial Designer

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I have recently come across this site and found it to be really useful. 
We were looking for a plastic injection molder and found a lot of good
sources.  Has anyone else used this service?  Are there any other services
like this out there?  Please let me know.  The URL is
http://www.jobshop.com/
Thanks again for your input.
Jim

Kevin O'Connell wrote:
> 
> Mike wrote:
> [snip]
> > Also, I couldn't agree more about using
> > SI units for engineering and physics.  (I was exposed to both systems in
> > school over 20 years ago and the choice to make is obvious.)
> 
>         I might agree more with you if ANYONE truely used the SI system.
> I too was taught both for virtually my entire education.  SI was pushed
> as the "correct" system.  But there are two big problems.  1)  No one
> over here uses it.  All construction equipment, and most commerical
> equipment is marked, evaluated, rate, and sold in American (British?, English?)
(snip)
I use both also but almost always use SI for kinematics.  I don't think I 
ever computed polar inertia in 'English' units and was comfortable.
Mike

I'm urgently looking for specs on vibration limits in mm/s
for a siemens 525V 445A 50hz 355kw 3600rpm motor
serial no  :1N133 ICI F
or 465512/1993 MB3 ICI F
Please email me : chapel@icon.co.za if you have details on
acceptable axial and radial vibration limits.

In article , bobp@netcom.com says...
[snip]
>I would like to drop these ear wax guards into a solution that
>will dissolve the wax.
[snip]
>
>Other ideas?
Hydrogen peroxide.  Not sure how it will react to the plastic, tho...
                                                     --Glenn

could anyone please supply me with the vibration limits
 in mm/s for a siemens 525V 445A 355 kW 3600 rpm motor?

Check out the latest Scientific American for an interesting article on 
friction.
Kevin O'Connell wrote:
> 
> Enrique Juaristi wrote:
> >
> > After having read some (old) references, I am almost convinced that friction
> > is almost impossible to modelize, be it analytically or numerically.
> > There are a lot of factors to be taken into account and most of them are either
> > impossible to measure or unpredictable.In the project I am working on, the
> > friction between two hot rolled steel products is being studied.
> >
> > I'd like to know whether someone knows of techniques, hypotheses,
> > experimental settings or references that could allow me to create a
> > realistic model.
> 
>

Is there anyone out there that knows how to layout out the relative positions 
of the ring and pinion gears for starters?  I have read SAE J543 and still 
have many questions.  The modified addendum seems to be confusing the issue. 
 Do you posistion the gears relative to one another based on their 
theoretical pitch diameter or the layout pitch diameter.  Intuition would 
tell me to use the layout diameters, but I am trying to interpret some OEM 
data and things are not adding up.
Thanks in advance and sorry if I posted this in the wrong place.
Scott McKenzie

hippy@acca.nmsu.edu (Hippy The Original) wrote:
>
editted for length...
...> If I could do
>both I think that I would be a very happy employee. After looking for a
>(any) position for over a year the problem that I see is either my
>apperance (long hair), my attitude (a little cut and dry till I get to
>know people), or my grade point. And as we all know they can't take the
>first two into consideration when hireing or that would be discrimination
>(yeah right).  -- 
who says "they" can't take your attitude into consideration when deciding 
whether to hire you...  "attitude" roughly translates to "interviewing 
skills" in this case...

Tim Butler (butler@olivia.ch.apollo.hp.com) wrote:
: 
:    They couldn't legally decide against hiring you because of your
: color, religion, or sex, etc.  But how on earth did you come to the
: conclusion that they aren't allowed to dismiss you because of bad
: attitude or unkempt appearance?
: 
: -- 
: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=
: Tim Butler             Massachusetts Language Lab - Hewlett Packard  
: Phone: (508) 436-4307  FAX: (508) 436-5135  e-mail: butler@apollo.hp.com
Here it goes, Just because I choose to keep my hair long does not mean
that I do not keep it washed and brushed. When I go for interviews or to
drop my resume off I dress very nice, suit and tie. Sorry to disapoint but
I don't go to interviews wearing unwashed jeans and a torn t-shirt. I also
learned how to shave when I was about 16.
	Oh, well it may be time to conform. I have had professors poke fun
at my hair, and that is one of the reasons that I did not cut it (I am
funny that way ). I believe that people should be judged on there ability,
not on there appearence. But as Dr. Ricketts said "Rich, you are a
romantic". 
Rich

In article , dickpilz@teleport.com (Dick Pilz) writes:
|> In _The_Power_to_Fly_ by L.J.K. Setright, there is mention of the Napier Nomad
|> which had 4100 SHP and weighed 3750 lbs. It was a 12-cylinder water cooled 
|> axial-turbo-compound liquid-cooled 2-stroke cylinder-ported diesel with an 
|> overall compression ratio of 45:1 (Which also means it had an EXPANSION ratio 
|> of 45:1 and THAT is where the efficiency comes from.)
In Setright's "Some Unusual Engines" (avail from SAE), there's a
beautiful cutaway drawing of the Nomad with some additional
commentary.  The closing remark is something like "...since it was, by
all accounts, a pig to start."
Highly recommended book.
MPW

Are all "hand mesh generators" the same? 

Does anyone know of a te for mechanical properties of plastics,
polycarbs,urethanes, etc...

Can someone help me to locate some good sources for a friend who's in
search of M.E. design jobs in the Bay Area?  What web sites are best to
check?  I've already looked at OCC with limited results.  What companies
are hiring in the area?
Thanks,
Dave
-- 
Dave Winn
Cisco Systems
Mechanical Engineer
ACCESS - NPI
408-527-1446

The European Patent Office plans to recruit a number of technical
graduates in 1997 in the Hague (Holland).
The advert you can find already at our site
http://www.xs4all.nl/~elio/epo/recrexam.htm
more information about our organization can be found at
http://www.Austria.EU.net:81/epo
Here follows the complete advert
--------------------------------
EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE  	
We are a self-financing intergovernmental organisation which grants
patents valid throughout Europe. 
We employ nearly 4000 highly qualified staff, over half  of whom search
and examine patent applications.
___________________________________________________________
In the Hague (The Netherlands) for 1997 we are looking for
	ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE GRADUATES      
to carry out search and examination of patent applications in the
following fields:
mechanical engineering, electromechanics. 
textile chemistry, inorganic chemistry, 
electrochemistry, polymers, biochemistry,
molecular biology, genetic engineering, 
chemical engineering. 
electronics, telecommunications, television, 
computer science & technology, circuits, electrotechnics. 
Candidates should meet the following requirements:
     have a good university degree in one of the relevant fields. Some
years' professional experience would  be an advantage 
     have an excellent knowledge of one of the official languages of the
European Patent Office (English, French and German) and understand the
other two 
     want to join an international environment at the forefront of
technology 
     enjoy working with PCs on a day-to-day basis 
     be a national of one of the Contracting States of the European
Patent Organisation (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France,
Germany, Hellenic Republic, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg,
Monaco, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the
United Kingdom). 
In return, there will be permanent employment with an attractive salary
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Please send your CV specifying your proficiency in the required
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to recruitment@epo.e-mail.com
or write to                       European Patent Office
                               Personnel Dept.
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                               Fax (+31) (70) 3403773 
(Please allow us a few weeks to deal with your application)

Can anyone tell me where to find information about how aircraft
propellers (airscrews) were manufactured before NC machines were
available?  What did the machines look like that produced all those
airscrews during the 1920's ?   

I have already spent quite a bit of time searching at my universty's
library.  Titles of books or names of companies, any lead will be
helpful.
Thanking you in advance,
David M.
email: u2142010@vmsuser.acsu.unsw.edu.au

Order up the Penske Damper catalog -- has some nice plots.  They use force
in pounds on the Y axis and shaft speed in inches/second on the X axis. 
Look out because they tend to plot both rebound and bump directions in
the 1st quadrant. 
We put a couple of the Penske plots (with permission) in our book,
"Race Car Vehicle Dyamics", pub. by SAE.
-- Doug Milliken
On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Andy Harbin wrote:
> Could someone please educate me as to what units most shock manufacturers 
> quote their damping rates in?  A vibrations text that I'm using uses units of 
> mass per time (eg. kg/s or lbs/s).  I need to be able to convert these units 
> to those used by the shock manufacturer so I can select the proper rate for my 
> application.  Some rates that I've seen include in.lbs or just numbers.  What 
> do these mean?
> 
> Your help would most kindly be apprecuiated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andy Harbin
> Senoir Mechanical Engineering Student
> Formula MUN, Suspension Design
> Memorial University of Newfoundland
> CANADA
> 
> 

I'm looking for any information on 'Meshless Methods' (i.e. Finite 
Element Methods, but with no 'elements' involved, just using 'nodes', so 
meshing operations would be unnecessary). Possible keywords: 'Element 
Free Galerkin Method (EFGM)', 'hp-Clouds Method', 'Partition of Unity 
Finite Element Method (PUFEM)', 'Reproducing Kernel Particle Method 
(RKPM)', ...
Do you know where to look for information (books, articles, web-sites, 
software, anything ...), please let me know.
Thanks!
Stef Pillaert, Belgium.

Can anyone point me to a site that deals with IR imaging & heat loss
for buildings?  Thanks.

In article , Jim Papadopoulos  writes:
> Russell  writes:
>  
>>I agree; this is a great catalog - but how did you get one?  I've tried 
>>to replace our office's now 10 year old copy for the last 5 years - 
>>they're always friendly on the phone and promise to send it, but nothing 
>>ever shows up (and we're a small enough office that I'm sure it's not 
>  
> Now there's a clear test of ability -- those who can figure out
> how to get their own McMaster-Carr catalog???!!!
>  
> I'm told the trick is not to ask by phone, make your
> request on stationary.
>  
> Also I've noticed that if you list your parent organization,
> they say "you already got one". SO maybe you should
> emphasise your own individual department or office,
> and don't even bring up USN??
>  
> Jim
Here's a simple idea, how about trying to order something from them?  
I ordered a digital torque wrench and a couple other things and they
sent a catalog with the wrench.  Pretty cool, I wish I kept it when
I moved to my new company.  Oh well.....C'est la vie.
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GREAT SOURCE OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH DATA AVAILABLE:  
HERE'S HOW!
I have been studying access to Defense Department technical/research 
reports, and the release and declassification of those technical 
reports.  It turns out that there are millions of technical reports on 
every subject imaginable catalogued at the Defense Technical 
Information Center - DTIC:  many of their reports are not classified, 
but are nevertheless still not accessible to civilian researchers, 
journalists and others, except through the Freedom of Information Act 
- FOIA.
DTIC WEB SITE IS SANITIZED & WORTHLESS:  DON'T BOTHER WITH IT
DTIC does have a web site, but the indexes on that web site are
extremely misleading.  One, they only search back 10 years., and some
of the journalistic research may require additional coverage.  Second,
and more important, the web site only includes public documents that
are already available through NTIS-National Technical Information
Services.  In that regard, it's pretty worthless.  So forget the web
site and mail in your request directly.
TECHNICAL DATA ON ALMOST ANY SUBJECT:  NOT JUST DEFENSE TOPICS
Bear in mind that the Defense Department has conducted research on
literally any subject including the environment, oceanography,
biology, medicine, chemistry and physics, history, animals, psychology
and sociology, behavior, anthropology, archeology, engineering,
safety, etc. etc.  You name it, they've got it.
HOW TO GET IT
However, any person can get a complete list of these otherwise
unavailable tech reports by using the Freedom of Information Act.
Simply send a letter of request to Kelly D. Akers, Freedom of
Information Act Manager, Defense Technical Information Center, Attn:
DTIC-RSM, 8725 John J. Kingman Road, Suite 0944, Fort Belvoir, VA
22060-6128  USA.  You should not need to call, but just in case,
her phone number is 703-767-9194.
WHAT TO ASK FOR
In the letter, explain that you would like a complete
computer-generated technical report bibliography (for all computer
database years) for reports associated with the subjects and keywords
XXXXXXX or YYYYYYY or ZZZZZZZ.  Select your keywords or subjects
carefully, no more than one dozen per request.  Use the word OR
between keywords, and include parentheses *s* with keywords to
indicate plurals also.  DTIC will process your request very literally,
so pick your keywords with care.  FOR EXAMPLE, *STRESS ANALYSIS*, 
*FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS*, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, ETC.
You can also request all reports by a particular author, or all
reports by a particular contractor or company.
Indicate whether you are a for-profit company, or a noncommercial
requester.  Fees are not likely to be more than a couple of dollars,
but indicate in the letter that you will be willing to pay fees up to
$20 without additional permission.  This last sentence is important;
DTIC will not process your request without a statement agreeing to pay
fees.  
It takes about 3-4 weeks to get a response.  Once you get the list of 
reports, you can select the ones of greatest interest or value and ask 
for those specific reports with another letter, if you want.
Michael Ravnitzky
MikeRav@ix.netcom.com

In Article <1996Oct8.224744@emuvax.emich.edu>, kbailey@emuvax.emich.edu (Mr.
Kenneth Bailey) wrote:
[Re: Obtaining McMaster Carr catalogues]
>Here's a simple idea, how about trying to order something from them?  
>I ordered a digital torque wrench and a couple other things and they
>sent a catalog with the wrench.  Pretty cool, I wish I kept it when
>I moved to my new company.  Oh well.....C'est la vie.
Not that simple, unfortunately.  Over a five-year span I (personally)
ordered three or four thousand dollars worth of supplies from McMaster,
using a five-to-ten year old catalogue.  Despite repeated requests *and*
subtle hints (i. e. "It would be easier to spend *more* money if I had an
*up-to-date* catalogue.") they never bothered to send me a new one or
explain why they thought I should be satisfied with my old one.  If it had
been any other company, I would have stopped buying from them.  But since
even an old McMaster catalogue is *such* a good reference...
Andrew Moskalik

Stephen Mitchley wrote:
> 
> Could anyone please supply me with details on the vibration limits in mm/s of
> siemens motor in the axial and radial directions. The specs are
> 
> 355kw, 50hz, 445A, 525V, 3600rpm
> 
> the serial no appears to be either :
>         1 N 133 ICI F
> or      465512/1993 MB3 ICI F
> 
> We are currently experiencing vibrations of the order
> of 2.5mm/s radially and 6mm/s axially
That appears extremely high based on a recent Siemens motor I was
involved with.  Have you contacted Siemens directly?  Siemens Industrial
Motor Division, 4620 Forest Ave., Norwood, OH 45212, (513-841-3100.

>I agree; this is a great catalog - but how did you get one?  I've tried
>to replace our office's now 10 year old copy for the last 5 years -
>they're always friendly on the phone and promise to send it, but nothing
>ever shows up (and we're a small enough office that I'm sure it's not
I got nothing via phone, but I did get one after sending a fax,
email, and a regular letter. In each I mentioned that the
person I was sharing a cubicle with had left to work for a
different company and had taken his McMaster-Carr catalog with
him.
Adam Ek
aeek@icd.teradyne.com

Hi,
I would like to seek your advice on the following:
1. It is possible to assign specific kekpoint number when creating it. Can the same thing be done for line and 
area?
2. It is possible to extract the keypoint number using APDL function kp(x,y,z). Is there similar functions for 
line, area and volume?
3. The death and live function allows one to put selected elements to death to simulate their absence. Can we 
achieve the same purpose by unselecting the element before runing the solution? What are the diffenences?
Best regards

(Hippy The Original) writes:
|> Here it goes, Just because I choose to keep my hair long does not mean
|> that I do not keep it washed and brushed. When I go for interviews or to
|> drop my resume off I dress very nice, suit and tie. Sorry to disapoint but
|> I don't go to interviews wearing unwashed jeans and a torn t-shirt. I also
|> learned how to shave when I was about 16.
Assuming that all this is the case, then I don't have a clue why you're
having such a hard time.  My hair reaches the center of my back in a
ponytail and I wear an earring.  For interviews I have always worn clean
jeans, nice shoes, a nice shirt, and a sport jacket (I despise ties). 
While I certainly have had a few people whom I could tell were put off by
my appearance, the vast majority have been much more concerned with my
GPA (at least within the first year or two out of school) and capability
(for the last 12 -13 years).  Shaving, actually, is one of my weak points
:-).
I would concentrate on presenting your accomplishments in an interview
setting.  In HP, we interview intensively and care about two main things:
the person's past performance (which is the best indicator of future
performance) and their ability to work with others.  Just out of school,
you don't have a lot of past performance, but you can concentrate on
projects you worked on, initiatives you have taken, and your ability to
get along with teams of co-workers.  Present concrete examples.  Prove to
them you can solve their problems.
|> 	Oh, well it may be time to conform. I have had professors poke fun
|> at my hair, and that is one of the reasons that I did not cut it (I am
|> funny that way ).
What you do with your appearance is dependent on how important it is to
you.  I wouldn't cut my hair even if it meant that I'd have to work for
1/2 of my present salary, but that's me.
|> ....... I believe that people should be judged on there ability,
|> not on there appearence.
In my experience, for the most part, they are.  Good luck.
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Robert Perkins (bobp@netcom.com) wrote:
: I would like to drop these ear wax guards into a solution that
: will dissolve the wax.
Robert,
Try Hydrogen Peroxide.  Ear wax has a lot of suspended water in it.
-- 
Bruno Karlin, BE(Mech)  ~~~Vibration Analysis & Monitoring~~~
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Hello,
I have been trying to study fastener load distribution in splices and
doublers
using FEA (ANSYS in particular) with only limited success.  I can get
the
peaking effect but the numbers are off as compared with hand
calculations (Niu "Airframe Structural Design" pg 235).  Below I briefly
describe the problem and then my modeling method.  I am hoping somebody
can point out where I am going wrong.
Problem:
Consider a doubler configuration of two plates of equal thickness and
material
properties fastened together by a row of six fasteners.  One of the
plates
carries a through load (axial loaded).  I would like to study the effect
of
varying the diameter of one of the fasteners.  
Modeling:
To model the plates I have used both shell and beam elements.  Both of
these
give similar answers.  In both cases, I used a separation distance equal
to the
distance from the mid-plane of one plate to the mid-plane of the other
plate. 
The fasteners are modeled using beam elements with the diameter of the
fastener
used to calculate the required constants (area, Iyy, Izz, etc.).  When I
vary
one of the fastener diameters, I get almost no change in load transfer
for that
fastener.
Any suggestions?
Regards,
Carl Sawyer