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...robot effortlessly picks up one castor after another from the pile in the box and puts them into the channel. No matter how the wheels are lying, the robot manages to get an exact grip. By Åse Dragland Operations run smoothly and automatically when assembling the various parts of an office chair at the...

...character to foster integrated research, educational and innovation activities in the field of knowledge-based multifunctional materials (shortly KMM). The KMM-VIN (www.kmm-vin.eu) is an international non-profit association (AISBL) based in Brussels and incorporated under Belgian law (No d'entreprise 889...

...students and Post Doctoral researchers in the period from 2007 to 2014. As per November 2010, the center funds 7 PhD students and 3 Post Doctoral researchers and will in the time to come educate an additional 5-6 students. Additionally, MSc degrees may be pursued under the FACE program and thesis suggestions...

University of Science and Technology (NTNU) are testing a model “whale tail” that can be attached to ships. NTNU is conducting these tests in the Marintek Towing Tank in cooperation with Rolls-Royce and the British companies Seaspeed and MOST. Eirik Bøckmann, Stephen Phillips, Alastair Sim and Ie-Bum Shin discuss...

...A fire is raging in a large building and the fire leader is sending a message to all firefighters at the scene. But they don’t need a mobile phone – they simply check their jacket sleeves and read the message there. By Åse Dragland Communication is essential during the chaos generated by a fire, earthquake...

...is block structured and each block is, depending on the dimension, a bivariate or trivariate non-trimmed NURBS patch. A CAD model is a set of elementary surfaces such as planes, cylinders, cones and torii, and NURBS surfaces. Many of the surfaces will be trimmed causing gaps and overlaps between the...

Both Helicopter and vessel application of dispersants are considered to have a significant potential in ice-covered waters. Through an evaluation of the different dispersant spray systems and platforms it has been recommended to focus the further work within this task on vessel as application. The In...

...epidemiology, biology, dosimetry and optical radiation and a number of consulting experts. EMF guidelines – 1998 Guidelines for Limiting Exposure to Time-Varying Electric, Magnetic, and Electromagnetic Fields (up to 300 GHz). The EMF guidelines published in 1998 are now being revised and replaced step by step....

...fighting climate change and potentially bringing mitigation solutions to the impact of anthropogenic CO₂ production. The CO2FieldLab project aims to be a building block in the foundations of future CCS activity. Moreover, this project represents the first worldwide attempt to monitor and model CO₂ plume migration...

...how MRST-co2lab can be used to model geological storage of CO₂. Structural trapping and spill-point analysis Generate and visualize trapping information This tutorial shows how to call the trapping analysis routine, and some ways to use the generated information. Accuracy of structural trapping When working...

Kippe, S. Krogstad, K.-A. Lie, T. Lunde, and J.R. Natvig. Are multiscale methods becoming mature for reservoir simulation studies on real-field models? ECMOR X, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 4-7, 2006. B. Eikemo, I. Berre, H. K. Dahle, K.-A. Lie, and J. R. Natvig. A discontinuous Galerkin method...

Holidays mark the high season for ferry queues in Norway. Pictured here, queueing for the crossing between Tørvikbygd and Jondal in Vestland county. Photo: Marianne Løvland/NTB Viewpoints Last winter, the regional west coast paper Sunnmørsposten reported the following: “On Sunday night, the Eidsdal...

...aims to highlight world-leading research in carbon capture, transport and storage technologies from the NCCS research centre. The two winning papers are: Techno-economic analyses of CO₂ liquefaction: Impact of product pressure and impurities, by Han Deng, Simon Roussanaly & Geir Skaugen was published...

...incorporating micro-capsules which “glue” small tears together. Photo: Werner Juvik In cooperation with research scientists and industry colleagues in eight countries, Susie Jahren and her project team are developing the clothing of the future for professional fishermen. Midway in the EU project “Safe@Sea”...

...pressure) that can be visualised and compared to experimental results from PIV measurements in WP2 <?xml-namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"/????????????????????????????????????????> The detailed viscous flow calculations done in WP1 and experiments done in WP2 are motivated...

..."urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"/????????????????????????????????????????> The goal of the work package is two fold. They are: To provide experimental data and information about the flow field around two floating bodies to be able to better understand the flow dynamics around the bodies. To work closely with...

...on your phone?   By Åse Dragland We seem to be drowning in ‘intelligent things’ and IT services. In our smart home, we can use various applications to control the front door, TV, washing machine, vacuum, heating and blinds. Other apps enable us to find out what time the bus is leaving, or book a table...

In the lab. Researchers Ekrem Misimi (left) and Sverre Herland with their robot called Bifrost, which has recently set a world record in learning to manipulate soft and pliable objects ‘all on its own’ Photo: Henriette Louise Krogness Standard “In spite of the impression many of us have from the media...

Trygve Brautaset and his colleagues at SINTEF work in the discipline known as synthetic biology. Both groups are working on the industrial use of microorganisms – to which they have given new properties. Venter’s goal is to end up with a synthetic bacterium that can efficiently use sunlight and CO₂ from the...

...team in action. Photo: SINTEF Standard There has been too little focus on mild and moderate forms of hypothermia following accidents, combined with a lack of suitable equipment. So says Consultant in Anaesthesiology and chief of Helicopter Emergency Medical Service Øyvind Thomassen at Haukeland University...