Rolls-Royce puts power behind British industry
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Rolls-Royce gained a range of awards and contracts during 1996. Rolls-Royce Aerospace Group received the 1996 MacRobert Award for the Trent engine, with its innovative hollow fan blades and proven three-shaft design, and it shared the IEE/IMechE Manufacturing Excellence Award for the technology involved in the design and manufacture of the Trent engine blades. Rolls-Royce also won a number of major contracts in 1996, including the 40 million pounds sterling order from the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority for power generation and sub-system work by the Rolls-Royce Industrial Power Group.
Publication Name: Eureka
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0261-2097
Year: 1997
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Impact absorption in an eggshell
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Cellbond Composites has developed Pressload, a system similar to the cross section of a slightly flattened egg carton. It can be created readily from a range of different materials, and offers high impact absorption properties. It has so far been designed with special aluminium alloys or thermoplastics. It can also be made by a range of different material-specific processes.
Publication Name: Eureka
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0261-2097
Year: 2000
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Bringing planets into alignment
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Thomson IBL's SwingLink technology allows planet gears to self centre to provide more effective load sharing and efficiency.
Publication Name: Eureka
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0261-2097
Year: 2000
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