Photo courtesy of NASA. Standard It is now 50 years since astronauts last walked on the lunar surface, but the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) are planning new missions in the not too distant future. Some people are talking about using the Moon...
...system SINMOD. The virus particles remain visible for four days, and the simulations are used to understand how ocean currents transport infectious materials between fish farm facilities. Norway is the world's largest fish farming nation, and makes enormous profits from salmon due to low production costs...
For the first time, SINTEF heads the lists that show where technology and science students at NTNU and the University of Oslo would really like to work. Every year all the companies, research institutes and other bodies that recruit academics keenly await the appearance of these lists. Now, the results...
FP7 IST EU project with the goal to increase user engagement in cultural activities. SINTEF, the Sør Trøndelag County Authority and the Museums in Sør Trøndelag will develop and set up a Norwegian trial. The development of City Explorer in UbiCompForAll has been a starting point for SINTEF to explore the...
...stresses and associated changes in the microstructure and mechanical properties of the material. WP 1 Research challenges Define a crack driving force in a welded steel component in which there is a residual stress field in addition to the external loads. Establish reliable fracture criteria and failure...
...tests are to obtain information on available communication technologies in the High North and document their potentials. Another objective is to identify potential data sources that can be exchanged between and used by different stakeholders for better decision support during an operational setting or...
...presents some important dissemination materials, links and events for the MarSafe project. If you want to take part of the MarSafe reference group you should send an email to: kay.fjortoft(a)marintek.sintef.no tony.haugen(a)kongsberg.com Brochures and downloading materials: Summary of the report Analysis...
...congestion with respect to important Air Traffic Services (ATS), most notably in the aeronautical VHF frequency band. Radio spectrum is a scarce resource, and so despite possible additional allocations of spectrum for aeronautical communications, the resources at hand should be utilized as efficiently as possible...
...product developed in this project is the monitoring of drilling operations in real‑time and assessing the risk for exposed sensitive habitats in the area to minimize negative consequences on environmental pelagic and benthic resources by providing data for decision making. Several projects have developed...
Room reservations for VeRoLog 2014 have been made at hotels and hostels in Oslo in different price categories. The following four hotels can be booked directly via the online registration system, with check-in Sunday 22 June 2014 and check-out Thursday 26 June 2014: Anker Hotel Thon Hotel Gyldenløve...
...silicon needs to be as pure as possible for the solar cells to have maximum efficiency. Over 90 per cent of the world’s solar cells are made of silicon, and the production of the world’s most environmentally friendly silicon for use in solar cells is happening in Norway. However, this process also leads to...
At Kjøllefjord, Ellinor and Ailu welcome visitors on excursions from the cruise ships, but no-one likes smoke in the traditional 'lavvo' tents, especially while they're eating. Illustrationphoto: Robin Lund/Ofotingen. Smoke can be particularly irritating to the eyes and airways of allergic tourists...
..."Yes, indeed!", say Telenor, the Norwegian Space Centre and the SINTEF company MARINTEK, who are currently looking into how they can make it happen. A meeting was held recently, attended by representatives from these companies' R&D centres and a number of potential users of an Arctic broadband system...
...technology involved to ministers Kristin Halvorsen and Liv Signe Navasete and prime minister Jens Stoltenberg. Photo: SINTEF / Thor Nielsen. Japan, ten years into the new millennium: instead of using gas boilers to heat their water, two million households and companies are now using special heat-pumps. The...
...that allow viewers to report when their mobile phone, tablet or computer has a poor quality Internet TV picture. The app uses a scale of between one and five stars, plus a discussion field. When the network provider receives a message, it can instantly redistribute bandwidth to give viewers better quality...
...preconditioners in combination with multigrid linear solvers, automated time-step selection, ECLIPSE type input decks, simple computation of adjoints and sensitivities, etc. Since the simulators are based on automatic differentiation, they are simple to extend with new constitutive relationships, extra...
...want to develop greener and more vigorous batteries, using inexpensive raw materials that are plentiful in Norway. A new generation of rechargeable batteries has entered our everyday lives. Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are found in our mobile phones, e-readers and laptops, and supply power to currently...
...the book, we kindly request your help by carefully reading the following detailed instructions. Download the archive file with the author templates and unpack them in a suitable directory. Alternatively, copy them from Overleaf (link not yet operational). Check your LaTeX installation by running pdflatex...
...completely entangled in green net mesh, shocked Tone Berg, a SINTEF researcher and now entrepreneur, into getting to grips with the problem. Illustration photo by Thinkstock. Standard Fishing nets have long lifetimes and can cause major damage to marine life if they are abandoned at sea. There are examples...
The interior of the earth is an immense source of energy. Now Norwegian and Italian researchers go to the depths to pick it up. Illustration: Thinkstock. Standard An international research team recently completed a three-year EU project called DESCRAMBLE (Drilling in dEep, Super-CRitical, AMbients...