By John R Gribbin
As soon as the province of astrologers and soothsayers, earthquake prediction has lately turn into an pressing pursuit of recent technological know-how. within the Jupiter impression, younger scientists current a chilling speculation with astrological overtones: the approaching Grand Alignment of all of the planets in 1982, the 1st such in 179 years, may set off a California earthquake some distance worse than the San Fransisco disaster of 1906. This new version covers advancements because the e-book was once first released and reactions from the medical group.
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It also shows remarkable resistance to damage. An earlier model Heron Suzuki motorcycle emerged unscathed in a multi cartwheel crash at 225 krn per hour. The chassis is at present undergoing further assessment and evaluation at the Suzuki Motor Company in Japan. Motoforms of Brussieu, France, one of the very few European companies specializing in making motorcycles for major rallies, now uses composites too. The shell of the Motoforms motorcycles is a composite structure weighing only 6 kg. The parts are made from glass fibres like Lyvetex and Kelvar laid up with an Araldite matrix system.
A special type called 'cenosphere' is made from fly ash, alumina and carbon. Hollow spheres find application in buoyancy products, acoustic panels, moulds and tooling fillers. They contribute to the stability of the product, provide impact or shock-resistant properties and add rigidity and stress resistance to the composite. This may sound like a paradox. For how can fragile glass beads provide impact insulation? The answer lies not so much in the property of the beads as in the way spheres behave when packed together.
So, it is only natural that aircraft manufacturers have started using composites in jet engines. India has not lagged behind in using composites for aircrafts. In 1986, the National Aeronautical Laboratory, Bangalore, successfully test flew the first Indian aircraft to be made entirely out of composite materials instead of conventional aluminium alloys. This all-composite Light Canard Research Aircraft (LCRA) was made entirely out of rigid foam and fibre-glass composites. The technology used in making the LCRA is similar to that used by Rutan Aircraft in USA for making the Voyager, which created aviation history by flying 54 HARDY COMPOSITES non-stop around the world.