Issue 6 (2013)
Issue Highlights:
New postgraduate courses in structural integrity
The National Structural Integrity Research Centre (NSIRC), based at TWI near Cambridge/UK, has unveiled two new postgraduate courses in structural integrity. NSIRC is the world‘s first educational establishment offe...
Laser processing capabilities at TWI
TWI, Great Abingdon, Cambridge/UK, is working with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and various Site License Companies (SLCs) to develop the laser cutting process for dismantling and size reduction applications...
Utilisation of industrial robots in the repair of individual parts by means of welding technology: Economically viable even with a batch size of one
In most cases, the prerequisite for the introduction of automated processes is a high throughput of components of the same type. However, pilot lot and just-in-time orders with high variance of the incoming componen...
