The European Suppliers of Waste-to-Energy Technology (ESWET), has released its Vision titled “Waste-to-Energy 2050: clean technologies for sustainable waste management”, to present the Waste-to-Energy plant of the future and to explore the role of Waste-to-Energy in future waste management systems in Europe and beyond. Recent World Bank’s predictions state that waste generation will [...]
As new technologies and materials change engineering and construction practices and increase the demand for effective and convenient inspection techniques, the nondestructive testing industry continues to grow. Government regulations that maintain high standards for public safety in regard to transportation, infrastructure, and defense drive spending on inspections. Nondestructive testing methods effectively measure the integrity of [...]
Since the Skywalk was opened in 2007, visitors to the Grand Canyon have been able to walk a “U”-shaped walkway mounted above the canyon’s expanse, 4,000 feet above the canyon floor. The Skywalk spans ten feet in width and juts out seventy feet past the edge of the Grand canyon. Build to withstand immense [...]
Ultrasonic technology revolutionized railroad track inspection procedures over the course of the twentieth century. In 1911, a disastrous train derailment in Manchester, New York took twenty-nine lives. The accident was caused by a transverse fissure, an internal crack running perpendicular to the direction of the track, that had gone undetected in visual inspections. This incident [...]
The Akashi Kaikyō Bridge is the largest suspension bridge in the world that supports automobiles. The bridge links Maiko in Kobe to Awaji Island across the Akashi Strait in Japan. Also called the Pearl Bridge, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge was constructed over a ten-year period from 1988 to 1998. Before the bridge was built, the [...]
For over fifty years, livestock handlers have used ultrasonic technology to measure the body compositions of live cattle. The non-invasive technique, called real-time ultrasound technology, allows handlers to determine how much red meat they will harvest from live cattle before slaughter. Ultrasonic technicians measure the 12th-13th rib fat thickness, the rump fat thickness, the ribeye [...]
In 2006, a train pulling tanks cars loaded with denatured ethanol derailed when passing through New Brighton, Pennsylvania. Twenty-three of the cars derailed when passing over a bridge atop the Beaver River, and many fell into the water. At least twenty of the cars spilled their contents, and the ethanol caught fire. The surrounding town [...]
The technology used for inspection is continually advancing. As tools and strategies evolve, the data collected by inspectors becomes more precise, which increases safety in the workplace and around infrastructure, like bridges, dams, roadways, and trains, that people use every day. Today, a process called georectification can lend new perspectives and add another dimension to [...]
NASA is working on a new Space Launch System (SLS), a powerful rocket and launch system built to transport and protect astronauts on a deep space voyage. The system will weigh upwards of six million pounds, and that weight will be propelled from zero to over seventeen-thousand miles per hour in just a few minutes [...]
The USS Texas was closed for a week in June 2017 after officials noticed that the vessel had tipped to one side. The tilt gradually reached eight degrees as water poured into the ship through various leaks, the largest of which measuring six by eight inches. Efforts to empty the water and patch the holes [...]
