Engineering Resources (page 4)

Last few decades have seen unexpected rise in demands for fuel catering to the needs of ever expanding global industrialization. With limited known reserves and supply constraints, mo...

Stress analysis of long bones is by no means a new field; it is believed that the earliest work dates back to Galileo in 1638 (Huiskes et al., 1981). Bone is a unique material in its ...

Over the years, I have tutored a lot of engineers. Most have been at university, a few have been taking their foundation year and I have tutored two BTEC students. They all have one t...

The heterocyclic organic compound, pyridine [Diagram 1] also known as Azine or Azabenzene (Robinson, 1932) in the pharmaceutical industry has the empirical formula C5H5N. Pyr comes fr...

Abstract - In recent years, there has been widespread interest and a large number of publications on the application of graph theory techniques into constructing and analyzing biologi...

Given that South Africa is an emerging space nation, in a continent of emerging space nations and economies, several technologies need to be developed to progress the space program ...

The shape of the fin is designed to produce a stable rocket system. These are used to produce a constant streamline flow and the stability differs for different types of fin shapes. T...

Floor vibration is the up-and-down movement of the floor typically caused when subjected to dynamic forces. These forces can be applied directly to the floor by human movement or by m...

GeoSAR is the name for a project that aims to place a satellite utilising synthetic aperture radar technology into geosynchronous orbit. The overall objective for the project was t...

Understanding travel behaviour and travel demand is of constant importance to transportation communities and agencies in every country. Nowadays, attempts have been made to automatica...