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In this issue Issue 65 – April 2014

ASME Named the THRUSTSSC a Historical TRAINING and DEVELOPMENT Mechanical Engineering Landmark ■ Upcoming Courses The legendary ThrustSSC, the first car to break the sound ■ In-company barrier, was recognised by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for historic significance. ASME named the ThrustSSC a Historic Mechanical CONFERENCES AND EVENTS Engineering Landmark at a designation ceremony held on 15 ■ ASME EMEA events calendar March, 2014, at the Coventry Transport Museum in Coventry, ■ ASME ESDA Conference United Kingdom. The British jet-propelled car will join a roster ■ ASME Turbo Expo of more than 250 engineering achievements from around the world that ASME has cited for their role in advancing the ■ Power Gen Europe growth and progress of technology… Read more ASME PUBLICATIONS News from ASME President – “Embracing Public ■ Book of the month Digital Library Transportation” Thermal Power Plant Cooling: Context and With the world’s population expected to continue growing Engineering , Edited by Carey Kin dramatically in the coming decades, with more than half living in large cities, engineers will need to reinvent transportation systems and urban infrastructure under constraints of increasingly limited resources and space. Engineers will need a new way of thinking about the future of transportation… Read more

The Dirt Road Less Traveled Mountain Trike provides access to areas previously inaccessible in a standard wheelchair. Tim Morgan is a design engineer who’s long had a taste for speed. In fact, he was a mountain bike racer in the Welsh National Championships in 1999. Considering the trouble people in wheelchairs can have with off-road terrain, he wondered if his two interests could create a solution… Read more

ASME NAMED THE THRUSTSSC A HISTORICAL MECHANICAL ENGINEERING LANDMARK

The legendary ThrustSSC , the first car to break the sound barrier, was recognised by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for historic significance during an event hosted by ASME’s UK and Ireland Section.

ASME named the ThrustSSC a Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark at a designation ceremony held on 15 March, 2014, at the Coventry Transport Museum in Coventry, United Kingdom. The British jet-propelled car will join a roster of more than 250 engineering achievements from around the world that ASME has cited for their role in advancing the growth and progress of technology.

The ThrustSSC made history on 15 October, 1997, at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, USA. There, Andy Green, a fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force, drove the car over a one-mile measured course, achieving a speed of 1,228 km/h, or 763 miles per hour.

Powered by two Rolls-Royce turbofan engines, the 10.5-ton car reached a thrust and power output enabling the ThrustSSC to best the previous land vehicle record-holder by 30 mph.

The ThrustSSC employed a team of engineers and technicians, who applied computational fluid dynamics programmes and wind tunnel testing to design an active suspension system capable of adjusting to the rapid increases in speed. The engineering team “solved novel mechanical, aerodynamic, and control

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ASME President Madiha Kotb (center) at the problems to design a car that properly managed complex dynamic forces, Coventry landmark ceremony with (from left) including those from reflected shock waves,” says ASME in a bronze plaque Gary Hall, executive director of the Coventry that was presented to the Coventry Transport Museum at the 15 March Transport Museum; ASME Executive Director ceremony. Thomas Loughlin; Richard Noble, entrepreneur and developer behind the ThrustSSC ; Glynne ASME president Madiha El Mehelmy Kotb and members of the ASME Bowsher, mechanical engineer for the vehicle's Committee on History and Heritage were among the officials representing structure design, wheel and steering; Joe Elliott MBE, former chair of the Coventry Transport ASME at the event. Museum Trust and founding director of the new Culture Coventry Trust.

NEWS FROM ASME PRESIDENT – “EMBRACING PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION”

With the world's population expected to continue growing dramatically in the coming decades, with more than half living in large cities, engineers will need to reinvent transportation systems and urban infrastructure under constraints of increasingly limited resources and space. Engineers will need a new way of thinking about the future of transportation.

Looking at cities before cars dominated, as Kent Larson of MIT's School of Architecture and Planning has, often you see a series of villages where residents can walk to places needed most. Today, jogging and bike paths are stretching across cities, as mobility parkways, pedestrian areas, and people themselves are embracing the what's come to be known as the "walkshed life."

High-density communities are benefiting from shared resources, finding ways of reducing congestion, and helping people to walk rather than use cars. Cities aim at both relief and prosperity: Chicago plans to have 75 percent of residents' homes within walking distance of public transit by 2040. Chengdu, in China, is a prototype city for sustainability and walkability, for multiple reasons: cutting landfill, managing wastewater, and better use of energy. It's considered one of China's most liveable cities and one of its best for investments.

The next major innovations in transportation, according to futurists such as Thomas Frey of The Futurist magazine, are personal rapid transit systems (PRTs) – quiet, quick, automated, on-demand mobility that will take residents anywhere, anytime – tube transport with ultra-high-speed vehicles that connect cities and countries. Early adoption has already begun in large cities and Madiha El Mehelmy Kotb, ASME President surrounding suburbs, particularly China, Japan and the United States. Solutions proposed include the Hyperloop (a high-speed tube transport using pressurized capsules that ride on compressed air technology), the Skytran (small pods on an elevated maglev track), Jpods (a solar powered guideway), and ET3 (car- sized capsules using maglev materials).

Public adoption trends, according to futurists, resemble that of the Ford Model T of the early 20th century – when access to cars allowed greater choice in where people worked and lived and played. Adoption of the car culture brought a change in values of what freedom means to individuals – no longer living with a 20-minute personal epicenter. Ford executive chairman Bill Ford, great grandson of Henry Ford, speaks often of how car technology must change. He notes that the underlying value of the Model T – expanding boundaries – has already changed, identifying that sense of freedom with the digital connectivity of the Internet.

Bill Ford also depicts dealing with the growing population of the Earth with billions most likely being unable to accommodate the current concept of personalized transportation and creating a "global gridlock" with cars stacked on each other in massive traffic congestion and surrounding fumes. Cities will differ in their solutions and individual vehicles will differ, but the systems will coordinate with other systems. Technologies that reshape a new future for transportation include vehicle-to-vehicle communication that enables auto- piloting capabilities as well as reserved parking upon arrival. Shared services with a single, fully integrated infrastructure will complement personal vehicle ownership.

Public transportation already is making a comeback in record numbers, according to the American Public Transportation Association, to levels not seen in more than 50 years in the United States. After judging this year's Future City Competition, I agree with other sponsors that the incoming generation of engineers is embracing public transportation as well.

This year's Future City Competition had transportation as its theme, while focusing on how all these advanced technologies may be put to good use: walkability, shared use, superconducting vacuum trains, fuel-cell powered transit pod-platoons, nano-analytics, solar flying cars, hyperloop subways, advanced communications, and even driverless vehicles.

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The Future City Competition, which annually involves 40,000 middle school students from 1,350 U.S. schools, held its finals during Engineers Week 2014. Thirty-seven teams made it to the nationals. The winning team this year, from Michigan, created a city model on Li River in the year 2164. Calling the city Gongping, which is Chinese for "fair," it included a transportation solution also called FAIR: flexible (a combination of personal and mass-transit vehicles), accessible (no physical or economic barriers), integrated (linked residential, commercial and industrial districts), and renewable (with power generated by roadways).

Gongping roads carry modular pod vehicles on powered pavement, using both elevated systems and subterranean cargo transport to minimize traffic. Continuous induction charging of vehicles is part of a closed-loop roadway system that generates and stores thermal, solar and piezoelectric energy in grapheme supercapacitors at subhubs. Vertical parking provides easy access and the pods can morph into small balconies.

What fun it was to see the creativity and research skills of the teams competing this year! I saw a Canadian city model with flying emergency vehicles, a non- stop train running in underground tubes, a bike share program, and a megaport. Students are awarded regional and national prizes, including special sponsored recognition, such as ASME's Best Futuristic City, won this year by a team from the Academy for Science and Foreign Language, in Huntsville, Alabama, for their city Facil Mudando (Spanish for "easy moving") . The award recognizes futuristic engineering concepts in the city's communications, energy or transportation systems.

All the teams are so enthusiastic about their projects. The students, judges, and supporters are doing incredible work that epitomizes the fun and excitement of engineering. Working with them reassures me that we'll soon have the solutions to the world's transportation and other grand challenges.

THE DIRT ROAD LESS TRAVELED

Mountain Trike provides access to areas previously inaccessible in a standard wheelchair

“Tim Morgan is a design engineer who’s long had a taste for speed. In fact, he was a mountain bike racer in the Welsh National Championships in 1999. Considering the trouble people in wheelchairs can have with off-road terrain, he wondered if his two interests could create a solution. “There just didn’t seem to be a wheelchair to use in the everyday lifestyle of going in the country with your family, enjoying that kind of terrain,” he says.

Inspired, he invented the Mountain Trike, touted as an all-terrain wheelchair, orders have come in from a good portion of the world.

Drive System Mountain Trike, the all-terrain manual Containing aerospace machine-swing arms for suspension, each wheel has its wheelchair. Image: Mountaintrike.com own independent suspension, getting three points of contact with the ground with two front wheels and a single back wheel. The lever drive system is also key. “For this, the problem is a normal wheelchair has off-road wheels touching so, for example, your hands get dirty,” he says. “With the lever system, you never have to touch the wheels—just push the lever forward, on the right for each arm, and the wheels go forward much more efficiently and it has the drive to go up hills in all weathers.”

“In terms of the design, it was a constant juggling act, balancing all the different compromises,” he says of the Trike, which took home the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Silver Medal. “You wanted it to be strong but lightweight and wanted it to have good position for going uphill but stable when going downhill. Sometimes the two riding positions are quite different so you try to figure out the best middle ground.”

Fatigue Testing For testing, he had wheelchair users give feedback and did some testing himself to understand issues. “We also did lifetime fatigue testing at the official wheelchair testing center in the UK,” says Morgan, who graduated from the University of Bath with a degree in mechanical engineering. “It was hundreds of thousands of cycles of impact loading— it even was hit by pendulums. We really did put the Trike through its paces.”

Presently, there is only one version but it’s adjustable for riders of many sizes. Mountain Trike enables users to access the Right now he’s working on developing a different range of Trikes for specific outdoors in areas previously inaccessible in a health needs. “If you have a high spinal injury, you might not have the same standard wheelchair. Image: control to work the brake levers so I’m adapting it for them,” he says. “You can Mountaintrike.com

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do it with a joystick control with pivoting wrists. I’m also working on an advanced pro version and I even want to do a smaller version for kids.”

What’s been most rewarding is the response he’s received since starting work on the Trike seven years ago. According to the company site, it’s even been used at the Headley Court Rehabilitation Centre, Surrey, UK, to help in the rehabilitation of injured soldiers. “I’ve heard from people who’ve said it’s changed their lives, that they are active in ways that maybe they weren’t before,” he says. “These positive stories just inspire you to keep at it. I think everyone should have as much opportunity as possible to be active.”

Eric Butterman is an independent writer/ASME.org

TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

ASME Training & Development courses for 2014

Invest in the knowledge that will bring you results and success for your job and organisation. Register for one of the following training courses:

London, United Kingdom - 19 – 22 May 2014

■ Boilers and Pressure Vessels ■ PD448 - BPV Code, Section VIII, Division 2: Pressure Vessels ■ Fluids and Heat Transfer: ■ PD673 - Design and Selection of Heat Exchangers ■ Nuclear: ■ PD615 - BPV Code, Section III, Division 1: Class 1, 2, & 3 Piping Design Combo Course ■ PD633 - Overview of Codes & Standards for Nuclear Power Plant Construction ■ PD634 - Comparison of Global Quality Assurance & Management System Standards used for Nuclear Applications ■ PD644 - BPV Code, Section III: Advanced Design and Construction of Nuclear Facility Components ■ Piping and Pipelines: ■ PD621 - Grade 91 and Other Creep Strength Enhanced Ferritic Steels ■ PD643 - B31.3 Process Piping Code – Sold Out! ■ Welding and Brazing: ■ PD645 - BPV Code, Section IX: Welding & Brazing Qualifications

Milan, Italy - 16 – 20 June 2014

■ Boilers and Pressure Vessels ■ PD146 - Flow-Induced Vibration with Applications to Failure Analysis ■ PD389 - Nondestructive Examination - Applying ASME Code Requirements (Section V) ■ PD441 - Inspection, Repairs, and Alterations of Pressure Equipment ■ PD442 - BPV Code, Section VIII, Division 1: Design and Fabrication of Pressure Vessels ■ PD443 - BPV Code, Section VIII, Division 1: Combo Course ■ PD583 - Pressure Relief Devices: Design, Sizing, Construction, Inspection and Maintenance ■ PD616 - API 579-1/ASME FFS-1 Fitness-For-Service Evaluation ■ PD665 - BPV Code, Section I: Power Boilers ■ Fluids and Heat Transfer ■ PD171- Pump & Valve Selection for Optimum System Performance ■ Nuclear ■ PD632 - Design in Codes, Standards & Regulations for Nuclear Power Plant Construction ■ PD635 - ASME NQA-1 Quality Assurance Requirements for Nuclear Facility Applications ■ PD672 - BPV Code, Section XI, Division 1: Inservice Inspection 10-year Program and 10-year Program Updates for Nuclear Power Plant Components ■ PD675 - ASME NQA-1 Lead Auditor Training ■ PD684 - BPV Code, Section III, Division 1: Rules for Construction of Nuclear Facility Components

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■ Piping and Pipelines ■ PD391 - ASME B31.4 Pipeline Transportation Systems for Liquid Hydrocarbons and Other Liquids ■ PD643 - B31.3 Process Piping Code ■ PD686 - Layout of Piping Systems and Process Equipment and the Use of 3D Modeling ■ Management and Professional Practice ■ PD699 - Reliability Excellence Fundamentals

ASME In-company Training & Development

Train your staff at your choice of location, on your preferred dates, with a corporate programme tailored to your specific company requirements.

All ASME Continuing Education training courses can be arranged exclusively for your staff and customised to your company's needs. Courses will be delivered by uniquely qualified instructors selected to match your needs and organisational style and approach – most of them are involved in the ASME Code committees who create and update ASME standards.

Save time and money by hosting a course at your company building or at another venue of your choice. Encourage ongoing learning with Continuing Education Units and a complimentary one-year ASME membership.

The ASME In-Company Training service offers you:

■ Training courses tailored specifically for your organisation, addressing your specific issues and challenges ■ Courses that accommodate your schedule and are held at your facility ■ Convenient and cost-effective educational programmes- Opportunities to train your staff in full confidence – customisation, results, privacy, quality, value

For more information on in-company training programmes and to discuss your needs in detail, please contact: Murat Dogru, Community and Corporate Relations Manager Email: [email protected] • Tel: +32 2 743 4427

ASME EVENTS

The ASME 2014 12 th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis (ESDA2014) is organised by ASME in cooperation with the Danish Society of Engineers (IDA) and the Danish Society of Mechanical Engineers (DMS) and will be held at the Tivoli Congress Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, 25–27 June, 2014.

ASME ESDA Conference Programme will help you build knowledge and skills day by day. How? 25 June – Plenary session: Advanced Manufacturing Impact Forum

■ Flexible automation ■ Advanced quality assurance for automation ■ Automotive manufacturing ■ Medical devices ■ Technology strategies (Lego)

Presentation on Conference Tracks:

■ Track 4 Computational Mechanics ■ Track 5 Design ■ Track 6 Digital Manufacturing ■ Track 7 Dynamics, Vibration and Control ■ Track 9 Energy ■ Track 11 Fluids Engineering ■ Track 12 Heat Transfer and Thermal Engineering ■ Track 15 Mechatronics ■ Track 16 Micro and Nano Manufacturing ■ Track 17 Robotics 26 June – Plenary Session: Energy Supply post 2020 Impact Forum The challenges of climate change and energy security or supply sets the agenda for the energy system of the Future. The session will try to conclude on what are the important step stones in the path way to a sustainable European energy system.

■ Energy supply post 2020: Trends and Challenges ■ A 100% renewable energy system ■ Opportunities, Strategies, and Economics for Entering the Shale Play Market ■ Energy production and transport in competition for the biomass

Presentation on Conference Tracks:

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■ Track 2 Automotive Systems ■ Track 7 Dynamics, Vibration and Control ■ Track 9 Energy ■ Track 10 Engineering Systems ■ Track 11 Fluids Engineering ■ Track 12 Heat Transfer and Thermal Engineering ■ Track 13 Marine and Aerospace Applications ■ Track 14 Materials and Tribology ■ Track 15 Mechatronics ■ Track 17 Robotics 27 June – Presentation on Conference Tracks

■ Track 1 Applied Mechanics ■ Track 3 Biomedical Biotechnology Engineering ■ Track 7 Dynamics, Vibration and Control ■ Track 8 Education ■ Track 11 Fluids Engineering ■ Track 12 Heat Transfer and Thermal Engineering Top 4 reasons to attend:

■ Gain latest industry know-how and insights ■ Be inspired by dynamic and expert topic day session ■ Network and discuss wins and challenges with your peers of varied levels of experience ■ Gather tools and best practices to apply to your job

Also see the opportunities to sponsor or exhibit !

Meet and greet your colleagues and business partners during the social activities:

Welcome reception (26 June 2014) Gala dinner (27 June 2014) at the Copenhagen city Hall at the National Museum of Denmark

Book also today your accommodation to obtain best rates – click here for more details

We look forward to welcoming you in Copenhagen!

Now in its 59 th year, ASME Turbo Expo is recognized as the must attend event for turbomachinery professionals. This technical conference will be held in Dȕsseldorf, Germany, 16-20 June, 2014.

Turbo Expo has a well-earned reputation for bringing together the best and brightest experts from around the world to share the latest in turbine technology, research and development, and application in areas such as gas, steam and wind turbines, fans and blowers, solar Brayton & Rankine cycle and critical CO2.

Turbo Expo offers unrivalled networking opportunities with a dedicated and diverse trade show floor. The 3-day exhibition attracts the industry’s leading professionals and key decision makers, whose innovation and expertise are helping to shape the future of the turbomachinery industry. Plan now to join over 2,500 turbomachinery colleagues from around the world at ASME Turbo Expo. For registration, sponsorship opportunities and further conference details click here .

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Visit the ASME Booth at POWER-GEN Europe Conference and Exhibition in Cologne, Germany. POWER-GEN Europe, co- located with Renewable Energy World Europe, is the most comprehensive energy industry event within Europe.

For more information visit the website .

ASME PUBLICATIONS

Book of the month

Thermal Power Plant Cooling: Context and Engineering , Edited by Carey King

This book focuses on engineering fundamentals of water use for cooling needs of thermoelectric, or steam cycle, power plants, along with environmental and economic contexts. Water has historically been abundant and cheap; however, the ever-growing human demands for fresh surface water and groundwater are potentially putting ecosystems at risk. Water demands for energy production and electric generation power plants are part of total water demand.

This book contributes important information to aid a broader discussion of integrated water and energy management by providing background, references, and context for water and energy stakeholders specifically on the topic of water for cooling thermal power plants. This book serves as a reference and source of information to power plant owner/operators, water resource managers, energy and environmental regulators, and non-governmental organisations.

From power plant owners wanting to know the tradeoffs in environmental impact and economics of cooling towers to water utilities that might want to deliver waste water for reuse for power plant cooling, this book provides a wide array of regulatory and technical discussion to meet the needs of a broad audience.

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