The Chernobyl accident was a nuclear explosion which took place at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the city of Pripyat during the time of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union (USSR). The Chernobyl incident is one of only two nuclear disasters classified as a level 7 event (the maximum classification) on …
What Caused the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster: In Detail Read More »
A safe is a safe, is a safe, right? It’s just a big metal box? Actually. nothing could be further from the truth – the problem (with regard to perception) is that to the unskilled eye, they all look fairly similar. They might be static in appearance, but they serve a uniform purpose – to …
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When creating a part in SolidWorks, that creation is often done empirically and this can lead to a feature manager tree that is littered with suppressed features. You have the option of re-drawing the part from scratch, but this can be time consuming for complex parts and it also holds the risk of a dimension …
The first part of this lock design masterclass covered the basic principles of pin cylinder lock operation and how some forcible attacks can be mitigated. In part two we will look at the issues of non-forcible attacks, learn how tolerance conflicts are a real problem, that springs can cause sleep pattern disturbance and that you’re damned if you …
As a field of mechanical engineering, lock design has its own unique challenges, including the fact that you are designing something in the full expectation that someone is going to deliberately attempt to defeat it. The range of attacks that a good lock must withstand is unique. It becomes a battle of wits between the designer …
This article has been written with the novice or beginner designer/inventor in mind. The intent of this article is to hopefully guide you through some of the various minefields that you’ll encounter, and to also look at the major challenges that any design has to face – from conceptualization to the realistic possibility of your …
Design it! The nuts and bolts of getting started… Read More »
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