A new app displays the load capacities of various shackles and slings, such as wire rope, chain, nylon web and round. Screen shot courtesy of RigIT. A new app displays the load capacities of various shackles and slings, such as wire rope, chain, nylon web and round.RigIT LLC, San Francisco, released the app RigIT for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch on June 8, 2011.“I have my rigging charts on a sticker inside my hardhat,” says Perry Churchill, safety manager with Bragg Crane Co., Long Beach, Calif. “But some of my charts only go up to a certain width, like
A fight over a 4G network and competitor to the Global Positioning System is heating up in Washington, as a coalition that includes major construction industry groups and heavy-equipment manufacturers is trying to block a move by LightSquared, Reston, Va., to launch a wireless broadband network. An industry group called the Coalition to Save Our GPS contends that the LightSquared plan would involve building some 40,000 ground stations and create interference with the existing GPS signals, which would disrupt systems such as high-precision GPS used in dredging operations in U.S. ports, as well as GPS that is used to guide
Image courtesy of Mesuris VISIBLOC's 3D feed is displayed to crane operators and the foreman in real time. The bull's eye in the bottom-right corner helps guide the block to its target. Monsoon season in the Arabian Peninsula's Sultanate of Oman goes from early June to mid-September, bringing with it predictably rough weather that can stir up the seas. For workers building a 3-kilometer-long breakwater at a $3.25-billion greenfield port at Dugm, this could hamper their work a bit.The stormy forecast led Muhammad D. Suleiman El Dawood, the site project manager, to adopt a GPS- and sensor-aided system for underwater
During his tenure at the National Aviation and Space Administration, Craig Collier helped develop the software that would become HyperSizer, a computer-aided program for designing with composite laminates. When he left NASA, his brainchild followed him, as the first ever software allowed to be commercialized by the space agency. The latest version, HyperSizer v6, was recently released. Image courtesy of Collier Research Corp. Different composite laminates overlap in this model of a wind-turbine blade. Each color represents a different laminate zone and often depicts one or more overlapping composites. Related Links: Interactive Screens For Less, To Go HyperSizer is designed
Utilities that allow users to view and control web-connected computers from a range of mobile devices—for example, smart phones and tablets—are some of the most popular applications. Woburn, Mass.-based LogMeIn, which makes the free screen-sharing service join.me, is among the more successful app makers in this category. Photo: Courtesy Of Log Me In LogMeIn has released a new version of join.me for iPhones and iPads. The company says the free app now features a Voice-over IP (VoIP) option that lets users converse during their screen-sharing sessions. A zoom feature for closer screen inspection is also available. On join.me’s Facebook page,
During his tenure at the National Aviation and Space Administration, Craig Collier helped develop the software that would become HyperSizer, a computer-aided program for designing with composite laminates. When he left NASA, his brainchild followed him— sort of—into a project with NASA to commercialize the product with the recent release of HyperSizer v6. Image: Courtesy Of Collier Research Corp. Different composite laminates overlap in this model of a wind-turbine blade. Each color represents a different laminate zone and often depicts one or more overlapping composites. HyperSizer is designed to help bridge the capabilities of CAD software and finite element analysis
Georgia Institute of Technology professor Charles M. Eastman, long considered a research guru for computer-based building design and construction, displays parental pride in his latest brainchild: Georgia Tech’s Digital Building Laboratory. Unlike Eastman’s past efforts, starting some 40 years ago, the fledgling DBL, created in 2009 to help improve building design and construction through the aid of digital tools, is a collaboration among academics and players in the buildings-sector food chain. “This is industry and academia together,” says Eastman, DBL’s director and a professor of both architecture and computing at Georgia Tech, Atlanta. “To me, it is so obvious that
On June 8, the software house of engineering and design firm Arup, London, is releasing MassMotion, an industrial-strength pedestrian-behavior analysis tool developed over five years for internal use. “Previously, it has only been available to us,” says Erin Morrow, the product manager at Oasys Ltd., a firm Arup set up in 1976 to develop, support and market tools built in-house. Mass-Motion has evolved over four version for use in complex, multilevel 3D BIM environments. The tool is designed to address the multi-core, 64-bit processors of modern computers. A multi-threaded architecture controls the actions of hundreds of thousands of virtual “agents”—that
Utilities that allow users to view and control web-connected computers from a range of mobile devices—for example, smart phones and tablets—are some of the most popular applications. Woburn, Mass.-based LogMeIn, which makes the free screen-sharing service join.me, is among the more successful app makers in this category. Photo courtesy LogMeIn Join.me viewer app talks iPhone, iPad and Android. LogMeIn has released a new version of join.me for iPhones and iPads. The company says the free app now features a Voice-over IP (VoIP) option that lets users converse during their screen-sharing sessions. A zoom feature for closer screen inspection is also
Georgia Institute of Technology professor Charles M. Eastman, long considered a research guru for computer-based building design and construction, displays parental pride in his latest brainchild: Georgia Tech's Digital Building Laboratory. Unlike Eastman's past efforts, starting some 40 years ago, the fledgling DBL, created in 2009 to help improve building design and construction through the aid of digital tools, is a collaboration among academics and players in the buildings-sector food chain. “This is industry and academia together,” says Eastman, DBL's director and a professor of both architecture and computing at Georgia Tech, Atlanta. “To me, it is so obvious that
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