Seminars for Semester I, 1996

The following seminars will be presented in Room 45-104 at 10am (Fridays) at 1pm (Wednesdays) on the dates indicated.

February 23

Mike Strehler
Influence of trailing-edge injection on losses and wake development

March 1

Nicholas Galanis
Mixed convection in inclined tubes

March 8

Magnus Nordsveen
Modelling of wave and turbulence induced secondary currents in stratified duct flow.

March 15

Martin Oldfield
Measurement techniques in short duration wind tunnels for turbomachinery research

March 29

Quang Nguyen-Do
Distributed control of coupled torsional-flexural vibration of flexible beams

April 18 (Thursday, 1pm)

Graham Roberts
Orbital atomic oxygen - a microsatellite investigation

April 19

Martin Veidt
Low-cost dynamic tensile testing

April 26

Bob Hooker
Chinese-Australian Universities Meetings on development strategies for Mechanical Engineering

May 3

Keith Weinman
Modelling of spray dispersion within a canopy environment

May 8 (Wed, 12 noon)

Ai Qin Shan
Statistical geometric tolerance analysis and synthesis

May 10

Brett Watson
Understanding design for "X" techniques

May 17

Renyan Jiang
Weibull distributions for modeling failure data

May 22 (Wed)

Brett Darley
Testing and research into drill rod joints for longhole drilling

May 24

Olga Sudnitsin
Increasing the simulation capabilities of expansion tubes

May 29 (Wed)

Paul Wong
The nature of engineering knowledge incorporation by small manufacturing enterprises

May 31

Samih Nabulsi
The behaviour of aluminium alloys in shear

June 5 (Wed)

Dale Garson
Ultra-rapid changeover of dies

June 7

Josh Harrison
Magnetic recording head-disk interface lifetime prediction methods, and consequences of the industrial trend towards near-contact recording