====================================================================== ENGINEERING NEWS IN BRIEF E-Mail Newsletter No.16 Issued by the Asian TOP Panel, April 2003 The Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society (CMES) The Institution of Engineers, Indonesia (PII) The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME) The Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers (KSME) ====================================================================== About the Asian TOP Panel (ATOP) On August 29, 2001, presidents of four engineering societies gathered@ in Japan to pave the way for stepped-up collaboration. They are Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, Institution of Engineers Indonesia, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, and Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers. They agreed to establish the Asian TOP Panel (ATOP), which is a@ voluntary body and open to any Asian engineering society and institution. At the first meeting, they decided to issue monthly E-mail newsletter which you are reading now. It will carry short technical news of Asian countries, and be distributed to all individual members of the ATOP societies and institutions. ATOP will meet every two years. The next meeting will be held in Korea in 2003. ====================================================================== [Contents] (1) Equipment Manufacturing Show Opens (Source : CMES) (2) Beijing held Auto Service Fair (Source : CMES) (3) Equipment Facility Starts Work (Source : CMES) (4) Technical Divisions in KSME (Source : KSME) (5) Daewoo Heavy Industries reborn stronger with Forklifts (Source : KSME) (6) POSCO and Hanlim E & C developed the world's first stainless honeycomb panel (Source : KSME) (7) Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co. awarded Seoul-Busan High Speed Rail Construction Project (Source : KSME) (8) SHI, continues to receive large orders (Source : KSME) (9) Development of Ultra Rapid Cooling and Atomizing Process Utilizing Vapor Explosion and Production of Amorphous Metals (Source : JSME) (10) JSME President and President-elect for 2003 Fiscal Year (Source : JSME) ====================================================================== (1)Equipment Manufacturing Show Opens (Source : CMES) China West International Equipment Manufacturing Exposition, the first such fair held in western China, opened on March 10 in Xi'an, capital of northwest Shaanxi Province. Sponsored by Xi'an municipal government with special support from the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, the exhibition attracted more than 1,000 foreign equipment manufacturers including the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Japan to display their high-tech products during the three-day exhibition. ====================================================================== (2) Beijing held Auto Service Fair (Source : CMES) Automechnika China 2003, an international trade fair for car workshops and service stations equipment, auto spare-parts and accessories, held from March 11 to 14. More than 300 exhibitors from 15 countries and regions, including Australia, Germany, Spain and the United States attended the event. The four-day fair was organized by Messe Frankfurt in partnership with China International Exhibition Centre Exhibition Co, the China Auto Maintenance Equipment Trade Association and the China Auto Repairing Trade Association. ====================================================================== (3)Equipment Facility Starts Work (Source : CMES) A manufacturing facility set up by the United States-based Universal Instruments Corp - a supplier of automated electronic assembly equipment - began operating in Shekou in South China's Guangdong Province at the weekend. It is the only manufacturing facility that the corporation has ever set up outside the United States. It will specialize in research and development and the production of surface-mount technology equipment, which has been replacing traditional production lines for electronic manufacturing enterprises. The facility is expected to help the company meet the market demand in China and save product delivery time and operating costs. ====================================================================== (4) Technical Divisions in KSME (Source : KSME) There are seven Technical Divisions in the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers. The Divisions sponsor their own annual or biennial conference/meetings. Following is a brief list of each Technical Division's primary areas of interest and the new chairmen appointed for 2003. Materials and Fracture Division (Chairman: Prof. Young-Jin Kim, SungKyunKwan Univ., yjkim@skku.ac.kr) - Strength, evaluation and analysis, fatigue, fracture mechanics, damage fracture, dynamic fracture behavior, micro fracture and material behavior, composite materials, environmental fracture, pressure vessel and piping, etc. Mechanics of Solids and Structures Division (Chairman: Prof. Young-Sin Lee, Chungnam Univ., yslee@shell.chungnam.ac.kr) - Mechanics of materials, continuum mechanics (elasticity, plasticity), computational mechanics, experimental mechanics, mechanics of composites, structural design and computer aided engineering, impact and crash, biomechanics, reliability engineering, etc. Dynamic and Control Division (Chairman: Prof. Hyo Whan Chang, Korea Univ., hwchang@korea.ac.kr) - Dynamics, vibration, noise, instrument, control, kinematics, robotics, vehicles, complex structures, etc. Production and Design Division (Chairman: Prof. Sung-Chung Kim, Chungbuk Univsckim@chungbuk.ac.kr) - Plastic working, materials removal, casting and forging, die and injection molding, welding and nontraditional machining process, CAD/CAM, machine elements and mechanism design, machine tools and machine system design, knowledge-based and optimal design, lubrication and wear, bioengineering, micromachines, etc. Thermal Engineering Division (Chairman: Prof. Jin Ho Lee, Yonsei Univ., leejh@heat.yonsei.ac.kr) - Thermo-dynamics, heat and mass transfer, combustion, thermal properties, environment and pollution, thermal system control and instrumentation, thermal equipments and heat exchangers, process heat transfer, refrigeration and cryogenics, etc. Fluids Engineering Division (Chairman: Prof. Joo Sung Maeng, Hanyang Univ., jsmaeng@hanyang.ac.kr) - Fluid mechanics, fluid machinery, turbulence, computational fluid dynamics, multiphase flow, flow control and instrumentation, environmental fluids engineering, biofluids engineering, flow-induced noise, etc. Energy and Power Engineering Division (Chairman: Dr. Pyung-Sam Ji, KOSEPCO, jips@kosep.co.kr) - Internal combustion engines, gas turbine engines, steam power engineering, new concept engines, fossil/alternative/nuclear energy, combustion equipment and heat exchangers, air conditioning/ refrigeration, etc. ====================================================================== (5) Daewoo Heavy Industries reborn stronger with Forklifts (Source : KSME) Since its foundation in 1937 under the name of Chosun Works, Daewoo Heavy Industries and Machinery (DHIM) has become the indisputable heavy machinery market leader in South Korea by constantly developing new technology and improving quality. The company graduated from the workout program and succeeded in standing on its own in November 2001. DHIM's business areas can be categorized into five units: diesel engines, industrial vehicles, machine tools, heavy construction equipment and defense products. Since DHIM began the forklift truck business in 1967, it has achieved remarkable progress, expanding its business areas to include skid steer loaders and telescopic handlers. It has independently developed main parts for forklift trucks such as engines, transmissions, hydraulic systems and oil-cooled disc brake systems, as well as introduced ergonomic designs enhancing the product image. Currently, it has grown into the nation's largest forklift truck manufacturer. It produces nearly 100 models of those trucks, commanding 57.1 percent of the local forklift truck market. The firm is now the seventh-largest forklift truck supplier in the world, with 5.2 percent market share as of the end of 2001, when it sold 13,519 forklifts in 90 countries worldwide. The company's superior product quality stems from its efforts to provide the finest goods and services available by developing environmentally friendly products. It has been given dozens of local and international certifications, such as the ISO 9001, the ISO 14001, the CE Noise Directive and the Eco-Label. Last year, it was awarded with the Korean World-Class Product Certification from the MOCIE, in recognition of its rapid development, outstanding technology and expertise as well as commitment to Korea's exports and national competitiveness. This year DHIM has allocated 124.4 billion won for R&D and facility investment. Currently, more than 800 research experts are engaged in R&D activities at the Central R&D Division and the R&D department of each business division. The company has pursued a globalization strategy by establishing nine worldwide subsidiary companies, including Euro Daewoo in Belgium and DHI Yantai in China, as well as a global dealer network consisting of 724 units in over 90 countries. DHIM is targeting 160.3 billion won in operating profit and 84.7 billion won in current profit on sales of 1.97 trillion won this year. ====================================================================== (6) POSCO and Hanlim E & C developed the world's first stainless honeycomb panel (Source : KSME) POSCO, together with its customer company, Hanlim E & C, has developed the worldLs first welded stainless honeycomb panel. As high-durability stainless steel has become a popular construction material for building exteriors, POSCO and Hanlim E & C developed, in only two short years, a stainless honeycomb panel that is lighter and flatter than existing panels. The new honeycomb panel is a fine example of mutual cooperation between POSCO, with its remarkable skill in processing stainless steel, and its customer company Hanlim E & C. The existing honeycomb panel, developed in the U.S. in the 1930s, is an aluminum sheet of hexagonal structure, bonded to stainless steel sheets much like a sandwich. It is widely used for the interior and exterior construction of airplanes, trucks and trains because of its strength and lightweight. The panel's one shortcoming is that the honeycomb structure, which is bonded to the steel sheets with an adhesive, can separate over time. Hanlim E & C, POSCO Technical Research Laboratories and the Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology developed the new panel by welding the stainless steel honeycomb core, which is much stronger than aluminum, to the external stainless steel sheets. The new honeycomb panel is more durable and productive than the existing panel and it is recyclable. Prior to full sales of the new panel, Hanlim E & C received a Korean patent last January and has applied for patents in the U.S., Japan, E.U. and China, etc. Since the panel was highly rated by the International Preliminary Examining Authorities (IPEA) last year, the patents are expected to be issued soon. ====================================================================== (7) Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co. awarded Seoul-Busan High Speed Rail Construction Project (Source : KSME) Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co., Ltd. entered into a contract with Employer, Korea Train Express Corporation on the eleventh of February, 2002 for Seoul-Busan High Speed Rail Construction Project, Section 11-3 which he had been awarded by submitting his price proposal in the amount of 78,900 million Wons only. The work scope is to construct the railroad and its bed for the project in the total length of 6,805 meters from Dang-ri, Bukan-myeon to Songsun-ri, Keoncheon-up, Kyungbuk province and other facilities. The period of the works is 52 months after receiving the notice to proceed the project from the Employer. The contract type of this project is a consortium which is made up of Hanjin with 80% of the contract amount and Kukdong Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd. with 20% of that amount. Hereby, Hanjin takes a good opportunity to show his abilities in the technology, project management and etc. accumulated from Seoul-Busan High Speed Rail Construction Project, Section 6-1 (total length of 7,250 meters from Deokam-dong to Sindae-dong, Daeduk-ku, Daejeon City) which was handed over to the Client at the end of 2002. ====================================================================== (8) SHI, continues to receive large orders (Source : KSME) Samsung Heavy Industries recently received orders for a total of 8 ships worth $580 million: an LNG carrier from Qatar's Ras Laffan LNG Co., Ltd. (RasGas), 5 container vessels from Canada's Seaspan Container Lines Ltd., and 2 product carriers (PC) from Italy's Euroceanica CTGM SA. The capacity of the LNG carrier ordered by Qatar's RasGas is 145,000, 7,000 larger than the existing 138,000, and RasGas is expected to order 3 more ships from Samsung. On the other hand, Samsung Heavy Industries has continuously received orders from Canada's Seaspan Container Lines Ltd. for the world's largest 8,100 TEU-class super-large container vessels, which ordered from Samsung five 4,000 TEU-class ships, and seventeen 5,000 TEU-class super-large container vessels in the last 3 years. These 8,100 TEU-class super-large container vessels are scheduled to be delivered successively starting next year till the first half of 2005. ====================================================================== (9) Development of Ultra Rapid Cooling and Atomizing Process Utilizing Vapor Explosion and Production of Amorphous Metals (Source : JSME) Masahiro Furuya Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, CRIEPI Vapor explosion has been regarded as an industrial disaster, since it generates catastrophic mechanical energy as a result of rapid cooled and fragmented finely. Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI) proposes CANOPUS method, which is innovative rapid cooling and liquid atomization process utilizing a sustainable small-scale spontaneous vapor explosion with a vapor explosion promoter as a quenchant. In this manner, one can utilize vapor explosion securely and efficiently to produce the fine amorphous powder. The cooling rate of the CANOPUS method was up to 1.5~108K/s, which was 280 times higher than that of the SWAP method and was several thousands times higher than that of the widely-used gas atomizing method. The CANOPUS method allows us to produce amorphous materials with excellent tenacious, corrosion resistant, and soft magnetic properties for more practical use, which was difficult to amorphize by other cooling methods so for. CANOPUS method is suitable for atomizing as well as cooling process. For instance, the mora coal gasification slug is difficult to handle from morphological point of view (need shape) and to atomize such highly viscous slug (18pas) at a nozzle or in a mill. CANOPUS method was successfully applied to the slug, resulting in 30 micrometer powders, which can be used for one of the raw materials of cement. ====================================================================== (10) JSME President and President-elect for 2003 Fiscal Year (Source : JSME) The JSME President and President-elect for 2003 fiscal year were elected at the Plenary Meeting on April 12, 2003 as follows. The new leading officers at the JSME Secretariat have also been nominated since the beginning of April. President: Mr. Shigeho TANAKA Chairman of the board of directors at Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science President-elect: Dr. Akira NAGASHIMA Professor at Keio University The JSME Secretariat Executive Board Director, Management: Mr. Yukio TAKAHASHI (takahasi@jsme.or.jp) Secretary: Mr. Kiyokazu FUKUZAWA (fukuzawa@jsme.or.jp) Assistant Secretary: Mr. Masahiro SUYAMA (suyama@jsme.or.jp) ====================================================================== Editor: Shin Morishita, International Affairs Committee Published by The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers Shinanomachi-Rengakan Bldg, Shinanomachi 35, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0016, Japan FAX : 81-3-5360-3508 All Rights Reserved, Copyright C 2003 The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers URL:http//www.jsme.or.jp/English/
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