Archive for November, 2009

New Jupiter Z Finally Released

November 30th, 2009

Today Yamaha released New Jupiter to Indonesian market. Attended by Jorge Lorenzo, YMKI deployed its new line up of moped

 

Diagram Fasa (Phase Diagram)

November 29th, 2009

Pada proses pembuatannya, komposisi kimia yang dibutuhkan diperoleh ketika baja dalam bentuk fasa cair pada suhu yang tinggi.

Pada saat proses pendinginan dari suhu lelehnya, baja mulai berubah menjadi fasa padat pada suhu 13500, pada fasa ini lah berlangsung perubahan struktur mikro. Perubahan struktur mikro dapat juga dilakukan dengan jalan heat treatment.

Bila proses pendinginan dilakukan secara perlahan, maka akan dapat dicapai tiap jenis struktur mikro yang seimbang sesuai dengan komposisi kimia dan suhu baja. Perubahan struktur mikro pada berbagai suhu dan kadar karbon dapat dilihat pada Diagram Fase Keseimbangan (Equilibrium Phase Diagram).

 

Penjelasan diagram:

  • Pada kandungan karbon mencapai 6.67% terbentuk struktur mikro dinamakan Sementit Fe3C (dapat dilihat pada garis vertical paling kanan).
    • Sifat – sifat cementitte: sangat keras dan sangat getas
  • Pada sisi kiri diagram dimana pada kandungan karbon yang sangat rendah, pada suhu kamar terbentuk struktur mikro ferit.
  • Pada baja dengan kadar karbon 0.83%, struktur mikro yang terbentuk adalah Perlit, kondisi suhu dan kadar karbon ini dinamakan titik Eutectoid.
  • Pada baja dengan kandungan karbon rendah sampai dengan titik eutectoid, struktur mikro yang terbentuk adalah campuran antara ferit dan perlit.
  • Pada baja dengan kandungan titik eutectoid sampai dengan 6.67%, struktur mikro yang terbentuk adalah campuran antara perlit dan sementit.
  • Pada saat pendinginan dari suhu leleh baja dengan kadar karbon rendah, akan terbentuk struktur mikro Ferit Delta lalu menjadi struktur mikro Austenit.
  • Pada baja dengan kadar karbon yang lebih tinggi, suhu leleh turun dengan naiknya kadar karbon, peralihan bentuk langsung dari leleh menjadi Austenit.

Dari diagram diatas dapat kita lihat bahwa pada proses    pendinginan perubahan – perubahan pada struktur kristal dan  struktur mikro sangat bergantung pada komposisi kimia

Siklus OTTO

November 29th, 2009

Under Vine Weeding

November 29th, 2009

Controlling weeds under vine is an important job in the vineyard. Weeds compete for water and nutrients and can lead to stressed vines and stressed vines = stressed wines.
The most popular method for controlling weeds is by spraying a band underneath the vine row with herbicide. This gives excellent control of weeds but does have disadvantages. We had found that we had in effect been selecting for hard to kill weeds.
Last year we bit the bullet and purchased an under vine weeder, to take out the problem weeds.

The weeder has a blade that slides along just below the surface slicing through plant roots. The obvious problem to overcome with the design of an under vine weeder is to not damage the grape vine. This has been achieved by the wonder of hydraulics. Above and slightly in front of the blade is a sensor bar which controls the blade; move the sensor bar and you move the blade. The sensor bar is 30 cm above the ground and as the weeder moves along the row the sensor bar is pushed back by a vine or post and slides around it and the blade follows the sensor bar.

It was necessary to put stakes around irrigation risers (pipes that feed the irrigation lines from the underground mainline) to catch the sensor bar and protect the riser pipes from being cut by the weeder. Other than that it was an easy change to make and in our soils the under vine weeder works really well.
Cheers for now

Stuart

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Kolkata based KKN Group is planning to venture into steel manufacturing by end- December 2009.

The group is likely to begin operations at its newly acquired Poddar Forging in Bhadrak in Orissa. It has already invested Rs 65-70 crore in the steel company where it intends to manufacture TMT bars, and iron castings required primarily by the railways, electricity boards, wagon builders, automobile units and related sectors.
This apart, the group is planning to invest Rs 250 crore across its various product categories by 2011. It plans to expand its presence by venturing in Gurgaon, Bangalore and Mumbai and for this it is likely to partner corporate houses such as Spencers’ Retail, Big Bazar etc.

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    A fascinating story of courage, dedication, skill, and genius. Hugh Herr is an inspirational guy…and we, at General Catalyst, are so proud to be a part of his journey.

    A Step Beyond Human

    Andy Greenberg
    Forbes Magazine dated December 14, 2009

    MIT professor and double amputee Hugh Herr is building the world’s most advanced prosthetic foot.

    On his way to a lunch meeting a few years ago Hugh Herr was running late. So he parked his Honda  Accord in a handicapped parking spot, sprang out of the car and jogged down the sidewalk. Within seconds a policeman called out, asking to see his disability permit. When Herr pointed it out on his dashboard, the cop eyed him suspiciously. “What’s your affliction?” he asked dryly. Herr, a slim and unassuming 6-footer with dark, neatly parted hair, took a step toward the officer and responded in an even tone: “I have no [expletive] legs.”

    Blurring the boundaries of disability is a trick that Herr, director of the biomechatronics group at MIT’s Media Lab, has spent the last 27 years perfecting. At age 17 both of Herr’s legs were amputated 6 inches below the knee after a rock climbing trip ended in severe frostbite. Today he’s one of the world’s preeminent prosthetics experts. His goal: to build artificial limbs that are superior to natural ones. His favorite test subject: himself. “I like to say that there are no disabled people,” says Herr, 45. “Only disabled technology.”

    Read more at the link below.

    via A Step Beyond Human – Forbes.com.

    Needed: Mechanics’ Dogs

    November 25th, 2009

    Dogs could be trained to smell problems with cars.  Not all problems, of course, but quite a few:  b

    A mechanical cow, that lets out a blast of steam in a strictly defined time, became the new point of interest of Scotland’s capital.

    The cow’s backside, that is attached to the wall of Rowan Tree pub in the historic neighborhood of Edinburgh, called the Old Town, raises its tail three times a day and shoots out the blast of steam.

    The mechanism works by hours, and thus allows people to synchronize their watches, as well as the another Edinburgh’s sight – One O’clock Gun, a canon, which fires every day at 13.00.

    The cow itself was set up more than a year ago, though the mechanism that allows her to let off the steam was installed quite recently.

    In spite of it, the cow already acquired popularity not only among the local citizens, but also among the tourists.

    The owner of the pub, Norrie Rowan said: “The cow already became popular all over the Edinburgh, that is why hundreds of tourist pass by my pub every day and take the pictures of it.”

    Many countries have already realized the importance of the development of the touristic branch, especially in city travel and are already spending huge budgets to install interesting objects and places of interest in the cities.

    A good example of this are the Baltic countries that have recently entered the Schengen Zone. This means a possible increase in the tourist flow and surely great income, because an average city travel tourist spends more than $500 during his stay in the city.

    Therefore such new members of the Schengen Agreement as Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania are refurbishing their cities, resorts and points of interest and performing huge advertising campaigns to attract as many tourists as possible.

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    Chennai 600 083.
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