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boards.ie Iaeste  
00:34 6-Nov-07   [Replies: 9, Views: 136]    By: Unnamed
Alright lads, any engineers (civil/structural in particular) participated in their placements abroad? Looks great, I was gonna apply last year but you need to be 3rd/4th year to apply, so now that...
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Vex Fan Forum Coding multiple sensors (lots of em) Need help!  
17:30 5-Nov-07   [Replies: 1, Views: 1186]    By: bloodstar23
Ok so, in my robotics class I've taken a grossly modified square bot (call it tank bot MKIII now, uses tank treads) and hooked up two bumper sensors, two limit switches, and an ultrasonic, as well as ...
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PhysicsForums Probability assessment  
02:20 5-Nov-07   [Replies: 2, Views: 188]    By: Unnamed
Dear folks, Please help me in assessing the following scenario. I have a cooling circuit arranged in series: (1) Heat exchanger (probability = 10^(-4)/requirement), (2) Pump (probability = 10^(-3)...
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boards.ie Fundamentals of building design  
22:19 4-Nov-07   [Replies: 8, Views: 158]    By: Unnamed
Can anyone recommend a site/book/anything that could give me an insight of the basic principles and design methods for structures? I'm doing a few group projects at the moment involving very basic...
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PhysicsForums Dropping Irradiated Hardware  
10:07 4-Nov-07   [Replies: 0, Views: 2]    By: Unnamed
I work in a BWR-5 plant and this outage we will be swapping 36 control rod blades. We currently restrict access to the upper elevations of the drywell during irradiated hardware and fuel moves because...
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boards.ie Summer work  
23:23 3-Nov-07   [Replies: 9, Views: 197]    By: Alsatian_Cousin
Hey guys, I'm a third year civil engineering student. Next summer I'd love to work in an engineering firm for a few months to get some experience before fourth year. My preference would be struc...
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boards.ie renewable energy:where to study  
17:08 3-Nov-07   [Replies: 7, Views: 231]    By: pablodublin07
HI: I am looking for a place in or around Dublin where to study about renewable energy,any information will be apreciated. Thanks ...
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PhysicsForums Help! An issue with a cantilever tube instrumented with strain gauges.  
01:09 3-Nov-07   [Replies: 4, Views: 190]    By: Unnamed
I am working on the development of an instrument which can be simply thought of as a cantilever tube. This tube is instrumented with strain gauges to measure the X/Y strains and two sets of rosettes, ...
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PhysicsForums Amps  
19:55 2-Nov-07   [Replies: 4, Views: 67]    By: Unnamed
Hi guys, I need to build a REALLY simple amp for a friend. I only want to use a resistor and a transistor plus the normal stuff(battery and speaker). Please help. Thanks in advance, Circuit M...
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Vex Fan Forum Motors Unresponsive  
14:43 2-Nov-07   [Replies: 0, Views: 965]    By: Dancin' Machine
Hey all, I am working with the Vex kit for the first time in a class of mine, and I'm having a little difficulty with the small sample program I've written. I have tested with printf statements ...
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PhysicsForums motor as switch (dc transformer)  
10:08 2-Nov-07   [Replies: 8, Views: 79]    By: Unnamed
here's an idea i just came up with, it's to run DC into the primary of a tranformer and get a constant output: place a brush motor (like the ones in model airplanes/cars) in series with the primary co...
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PhysicsForums Whats the holdup with Fusion Power?  
00:14 2-Nov-07   [Replies: 55, Views: 4750]    By: Unnamed
You got temperature and/or pressure, and one simple atom to play with. What's the big deal?...
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PhysicsForums How to Calculate Temperature & Time of Heating Element  
04:19 1-Nov-07   [Replies: 0, Views: 29]    By: Unnamed
Heating Wire having the following Data : SWG 16(1.63mm) Specific Resistivity = 1.45 ohms-mm-3 Density = 7.1 gm-cm-3 Resistance = 0.685 ohms/Meter Weight = 15 Gram/Meter (a)Please help me...
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boards.ie Westlink tollbridge  
21:11 31-Oct-07   [Replies: 4, Views: 170]    By: Unnamed
Anyone know where I can find info about the design of the bridge, specifically the foundations under the piers? Thanks ...
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PhysicsForums Melt wire experiments  
05:13 31-Oct-07   [Replies: 1, Views: 51]    By: Unnamed
Can someone please help me understand the phrase "melt wire experiments" as used at the AVR fuel testing analysis and maybe why the such a choice of phraising. I would aso appreciate if I co...
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boards.ie thermal plant and CCGT efficiency  
17:03 30-Oct-07   [Replies: 3, Views: 129]    By: holdfast
Hello Looking for a bit of help here. I have a project which require me 2. Describe in detail one thermal/steam plant and calculate its efficiency, specific steam consumption and CO2 emissions...
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PhysicsForums Pyrometry  
12:35 30-Oct-07   [Replies: 1, Views: 53]    By: Unnamed
I wanted to know in what applications there is a great need for very accurate temperature sensing in other words If you could measure surfaces with an accuracy of 10X what you can measure today – woul...
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PhysicsForums Ammeter to help the circuit work!!!  
12:05 29-Oct-07   [Replies: 4, Views: 76]    By: Unnamed
I have connected one IC circuit which is taking from a remote control car. Then I connect it to the a power supply which is 9V. It doesn't work in the beginning. But I don't know why it works after I ...
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PhysicsForums Why? question about optical encoder  
21:20 28-Oct-07   [Replies: 2, Views: 23]    By: Unnamed
Why is the outermost ring of an optical encoder the least significant bit? Is this somehow related to frequency?...
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boards.ie Burst Firing Module  
02:09 28-Oct-07   [Replies: 5, Views: 137]    By: <Missing>
Can someone explain what this is exactly? I cant find a definition of what it is anywhere on the internet. My understanding of it is that its a power controller that operates in "bursts"...
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PhysicsForums Australian research reactor fuel problem  
23:43 25-Oct-07   [Replies: 9, Views: 203]    By: Unnamed
Any ideas about the causes of the incident at the new Australian research reactor (OPAL) where some fuel plates in some of the assemblies were found to be elevated? I.e., translated vertically upwards...
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PhysicsForums How to find neutron capture and fission cross section  
11:05 25-Oct-07   [Replies: 5, Views: 78]    By: Unnamed
I'm writing a paper on Thorium utilization in nuclear reactors. In this connection I'm looking for figures which describe the neutron capture and neutron fission cross sections over a wide energy r...
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boards.ie Vacuum bagging materials  
21:20 23-Oct-07   [Replies: 5, Views: 163]    By: Unnamed
Hey, Looking for materials/supplies to do some vacuum bagging. Need to find the materials such as bagging films, peel ply, breather fabric. I have been onto a few companies and they are gi...
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PhysicsForums Alpha Gloveboxes  
15:17 22-Oct-07   [Replies: 4, Views: 117]    By: Unnamed
Why do alpha gloveboxes require so much shielding? Do alpha particle interactions create high energy electrons which produce Bremsstrahlung radiation or is it the high activity producing greater qua...
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boards.ie FÁS Safe Pass - why so long of a wait?  
13:20 21-Oct-07   [Replies: 7, Views: 175]    By: Unnamed
Quite simple really, I've just completed the safe pass course (huzzah and all that) and I was informed that it will take up to 13 weeks (if I'm lucky) to send me out my card. Doesn't anyone know e...
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