New valve technologies for car engines could make a real difference in terms of fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. With some expert help from Chinese friends, researchers have breathed new life into an EU-fun...
A new international project to reduce aircraft noise is building on pioneering research by UK engineers.
The Cambridge-MIT Institute's Silent Aircraft Initiative (SAI) aims to design an aircraft that will make mu...
The world’s fastest air-breathing engine will fly in Australia in 2005 in a collaborative two-nation experiment that is expected to provide a major boost to the fledgling scramjet technology.
Australian and U.S...
Brookhouse Holdings Ltd, the Darwen-based composites and metals engineering and tooling company, has been the subject of a management buy-out, supported by the Manchester office of Aberdeen Murray Johnstone Private Equit...
PREMIER AWARDS
Bessemer Gold Medal
For outstanding services to the steel industry, awarded to Professor R J Fruehan, US Steel Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Chapman Medal
For distinguished research in...
Trains that shake houses do not encourage public support for the
switch of freight from road to rail. CASCO promotes social acceptance for trains
by making them quieter using small, low-energy damping
d...
Granular materials – which include everything from coal to coco pops – are physical substances that don’t quite fit into any of the known phases of matter: solid, liquid, or gas.
Keep the grains und...
High-quality nanopowders made of refractory ceramics are a rare and very expensive material. All known methods of their manufacturing face the same problems - scanty quantities, extensive variety of particle sizes and ex...
Following the tragedy of September 11, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST have developed a new instrument for testing steel elements salvaged from the World Trade Center.
Based on a device that h...
Just four months after it began its racing career, 90 foot maxi, Alfa Romeo took line honours and recorded the second fastest time ever in the Rolex Sydney to Hobart yacht race which started on Boxing Day 2002. Weather c...