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LAS VEGAS HIGH ROLLER! Bearings Smooth the Action May/June 2019 LAS VEGAS HIGH ROLLER! Bearings smooth the action 001_IEDM_MAY19.indd 1 25/04/2019 10:33 Contacts Institution of Engineering Designers Courtleigh, Westbury Leigh, Westbury, Wiltshire, BA13 3TA Telephone: +44 (0)1373 822801 Fax: +44 (0)1373 858085 Email: [email protected] Website: www.ied.org.uk @InstEngDes Institution of Engineering Designers President May/June 2019 Pete Lomas FREng HonFIED Immediate Past President Maggie Philbin OBE HonFIED (PP) Chair EurIng Colin Ledsome BEng MEng LAS VEGAS Engineering Designer needs good articles on matters important to CEng FIMechE FIED MCMI FBIS MDS HIGH ROLLER! design. Why not write one? You will receive help from the editorial team, Immediate Past Chair Bearings smooth should you need it. 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The publication of an typographical or minor changes which do not affect the advertisement or editorial does not imply that a product value of the advertisement. EK Meyrick, JD Poole Email: [email protected] 002_IEDM_MAY19.indd 2 25/04/2019 10:37 Contents Volume 45 Number 3 Regulars Features View from the Chair 4 Graphene bids for glory 6 TeenTech conquest 16 Colin Ledsome CEng Every few decades a new ‘wonder’ material More than 1,500 students from schools FIED: pollution and its hits the market and is hailed as the answer right across the UK and Europe were involved environmental impact to engineers’ prayers. Then it all goes a in the latest TeenTech Awards bit at. Might the recent opening of the Asides 5 Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre in Bloodhound on the scent again! 18 Here’s one ‘L’ of a game Manchester be the critical step in bringing When the company behind Bloodhound SSC that just might prove this material to market in a big way? folded, the quest to smash the world land addictive! speed record looked to have gone. Now that The wonders of waste 10 dream shines brightly once again IED Annual Report A £200 million investment at United & Accounts 19 Utilities’ Davyhulme wastewater treatment Future-focused Leaders 23 works in Greater Manchester has put the In this series, Dr Benjamin W Watson CEng IED Elections & site right at the forefront when it comes to CTPD CEnv MIED identi es the key innovation Registrations 27 sewage treatment management principles central to success Wright Hassall 28 COVER STORY Motors on Mars 24 Tariva Thomas looks at Bearing up under pressure 13 The space race seems to be accelerating once some complex issues The safe, reliable operation of tunnel boring more – with Elon Musk’s recent SpaceX launch around accident liability equipment relies on the integrity of critical upping the ante. China, the US and Europe are bearings and seals. And with no reverse all exploring the Moon and Mars, and planning IED News/What’s gear on tunnel boring machines, there’s future missions. Here, we look at some of the Happening 30 no going back once construction starts emerging technologies that are involved 6 10 16 24 003_IEDM_MAY19.indd 3 29/04/2019 16:50 VIEW FROM THE CHAIR hen something is in the process of W being designed, the most fundamental decisions are usually about materials and the method of manufacture. There is often a wide choice of cost, weight, strength, stiffness, ease of manufacture, availability of materials and manufacturing capacity, as well as nish and corrosion resistance to be /stock.adobe.com peshkova considered, in order to nd a compromise that best meets the requirements. In recent decades, we have become more and more aware of pollution and its effects on the environment we Embracing depend on. The effects on wildlife, vegetation and the overall temperature of the planet, with sea level rise and loss of polar ice as a consequence, are all becoming more the planet apparent, along with the urgency to do something to reverse them. This means we have some extra factors to consider when making those fundamental choices. Pollution and its impact on the environment Producing ‘raw’ materials, no matter what the source, and are altering the way we approach design, as putting them through a manufacturing process to produce a Colin Ledsome CEng FIED points out component is usually an expensive, energy-intensive activity. It also produces signicant amounts of waste, both of the material itself and the other materials used in the process, often including large quantities of water. Add to that the effects of packaging, transport and storage, and most products have had a signicant environmental impact before they begin their useful life. Designers should be aware of the environmental consequences of their manufacturing decisions, including where to manufacture, as well as the impact of the product itself. Pressure is coming from political and market sources to give products longer lives in service, and make them easier to maintain and repair to extend those lives. This is an extra design requirement we should consider, even if it is not part of the original proposal. One option we have is to make it easier to give a product the potential for further ‘lives’ in service by designing it from the outset with that in mind. Take a look at BS8887 Design for Manufacture, Assembly, Disassembly and End-of-life Processing (MADE): Part 3 1918 Guide to choosing an appropriate end-of-life design strategy. Get Involved If you would like to contribute to any discussions, write to: Colin Ledsome BEng MEng CEng FIMechE FIED MCMI FBIS MDS, Chair, at: The Institution of Engineering Designers, Courtleigh, Westbury Leigh, Westbury, Wiltshire BA13 3TA. Or email: [email protected] 4 www.ied.org.uk 004_IEDM_MAY19.indd 4 25/04/2019 10:49 ASIDES One ‘L’ of a game Colin Ledsome CEng FIED looks at an engagingly simple two-person game. Spoiler alert: it can prove addictive! imple two-person games, like Noughts and Crosses (Tic-Tac-Toe, if you are American), usually give an advantage to the fi rst player and often the game is inevitably short.
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