Sentences with phrase «full scale test»

There was just not much hot weather this summer, so not a lot of incentive to get this full scale test hooked up and running.
Building Science Consulting has conducted field testing of full scale test walls in an field exposure hut on the lower mainland of British Columbia, which experiences similar temperatures and moisture loads to both Portland OR, and Seattle WA, and some of those results will be shown here to compare actual measured results in the field to predicted results by hygrothermal simulations.
However I didn't do a full scale test of all possible characters from these planes.
Those were expensive mistakes, requiring substantial improvement in reactive CFD modeling, with quantitative validation against full scale tests.
A key difference with cars is that you can do full scale testing, and if you don't have a moving floor you're wasting your time.

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And when the proposed test is done, the population of aegypti is expected to rebound to its previous level — at least until and unless the test is deemed so successful, safe, and necessary that Oxitec is permitted to move from experiment to full - scale release.
Once you see returns slow down, look for new approaches, but always test them before implementing changes on a full scale.
Local explorer Northern Minerals plans to build a test pilot plant at its Browns Range project near Halls Creek at a cost of about $ US18 million ($ A25 million), rather than proceeding with full - scale development in light of the depressed rare earths market.
And, according to WebVisible's Manger, it provides a platform for a company to test a marketing message before full - scale rollout.
We are in the bowels of the amphibious - assault ship Tarawa, where many of the marines» theories on decentralization and decision making are about to be put to the test in the time - honored tradition of a full - scale exercise.
Hyperloop One this week announced that it completed the first full - scale test of its high - speed transportation system, a move the company hailed as the burgeoning technology's «Kitty Hawk moment.»
WASHINGTON, Nov 16 - The Republican - controlled U.S. Congress approached a major test on Thursday of its ability to enact sweeping tax cuts, as lawmakers prepared for their first full - scale vote on tax legislation.
WASHINGTON, Nov 16 - The Republican - controlled U.S. Congress was approaching a major test on Thursday of its ability to enact sweeping tax cuts, as lawmakers prepared for their first full - scale vote on tax legislation.
WASHINGTON, Nov 16 - The Republican - controlled U.S. Congress was approaching a major test on Thursday of its ability to overhaul the federal tax code, as lawmakers prepared for their first full - scale vote on sweeping tax legislation.
The company tells The Verge that it expects its first full - scale public test run — which it has dubbed its «Kitty Hawk moment» — to take place sometime in the next few months.
So Branson decided to visit the startup's test site out in the Nevada desert in May, two months before the company completed its first full - scale test of the system.
However, the company contends it is the only one with a full - scale system that has been built and tested.
Where a «problem or challenge» exists (or one is anticipated in the future), the lab will seek out the best emerging technology solutions that can be fine - tuned, tested and ultimately validated prior to full scale commercial deployment.
They are not quite there yet, but the company claims that they achieved a test speed record «of nearly 387 kilometers per hour» (240 miles per hour, 107 meters per second) at their full - scale test track in Nevada.
The facility is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and is a key element of NNSA's Stockpile Stewardship Program to maintain the reliability and safety of the U.S. nuclear deterrent without full - scale testing.
To complete the packaging development process, full - scale packaging equipment is used to create packaging prototypes in real - life packaging line situations, testing for shelf life, extreme cold, heat, and humidity.
The day will also include a full scale demonstration of the APRIL system, which includes a 5 tonne industrial robot recently installed at the test centre.
Bryant wants to test his ankle joint and see how it responds, which he will get to on an initial basis with full - scale team practices set for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
They will rent a scale for a full 24 hours and do multiple test weights; at least twice in the morning, maybe twice in the afternoon, twice at night.
David Cameron's pledges in the election, No. 10 feels, rule out the full - scale assault on the principle of universality that the Lib Dems argued for, such as means testing benefits like child benefit to cut them back for better off families.
The more successful tests that Cash's team has, the stronger the case for NASA to fund a full - scale version.
By the end of the summer, he predicts, the test bed will have demonstrated the necessary contrast ratio that, scaled up to full size, could enable the imaging of Earth - like planets.
Scale models are built and collected for many reasons including, in engineering, for testing the likely performance of a design object at an early stage without the expense of building a full - sized prototype; in remote control vehicles; and on TV and in the movie industry, for constructing objects or sets that can not be built in full size.
NASA's Near - Earth Asteroid Scout, a small satellite the size of a shoebox, designed to study asteroids close to Earth, performed a full - scale solar sail deployment test at ManTech NeXolve's facility in Huntsville, Alabama, Sept. 13.
None of the subjects had full - blown PTSD at the time of the test; the highest score on the symptom scale, 39, was just below the cutoff for a PTSD diagnosis.
In Sandia's Experimental Impact Mechanics Laboratory, Song and his team conducted small - scale testing with a metal rod about 20 times smaller than that used in the full - scale test.
It's a flying robot called Cypher, and in its first full - scale test last January it went gliding down the streets of Fort Benning, Georgia, peering around corners, hovering in front of windows, delivering packages, [CK: what exactly did it do and how?
An 8 - metre long prototype has been tested, but the firm says it will be several years before its full - scale 1 - megawatt device, which would be 150 metres long, is ready.
«Our shake table enables researchers to test structural specimens at full - scale for severe earthquake ground motions, which is crucial for making the kinds of structural engineering advances that save lives and enhance the resilience of communities after natural disasters.»
Given the current levels of investment in nanohazard testing, the researchers suggest that full - scale nanotoxicity testing could take decades to complete.
In the current tests of the two - story, 22 - foot - tall structure, the researchers are studying the behavior of full - scale seismic safety systems made from advanced wood materials — including rocking walls, which can rock during a temblor and then re-center back by itself, and a mass timber floor designed to withstand strong earthquakes.
Researchers expect to spend at least 6 months, and likely more, testing the two prototypes before attempting to move to full - scale production.
The researchers have also tested a full - scale, cross-section of a tower cell for operational loads and extreme loads for a 2.3 megawatt Siemens turbine.
These results were affirmed during the full - scale gas turbine test, validating the predictive accuracy of the new simulation methods developed on Titan.
In 2014, one such pulsation caught researchers» attention during a full - scale test of a gas turbine.
If a test using a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant works, Bayless hopes to have a full - scale bioreactor, with 1.25 million square meters of algae screens handling the output of a 10 - megawatt power plant, running by 2010.
To remedy some of this shortfall, the ShakeAlert system is testing the use of «volunteer» accelerometers, mostly in the Los Angeles area, that are sensitive enough to detect earthquakes and can be plugged in at a business or home, bypassing the more expensive permitting and installation needed for a full - scale seismic station.
The experiments support the Stockpile Stewardship Program, begun in 1995 to assure the safety, security and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear deterrent without the need for full - scale nuclear testing.
But that interruption of Los Alamos's pit production and testing — the latter of which is meant to substitute in part for full - scale explosive nuclear testing — has made some of those responsible for managing the nuclear stockpile uncomfortable.
This test acreage is fairly small, hardly the equivalent of a full - scale commercial planting, as some environmental groups have accused.
NASA's Space Launch System (artist concept), which won't begin testing until 2017, and full - scale testing in the 2020s.
NASA's Near - Earth Asteroid Scout, designed to study asteroids close to Earth, recently performed a full - scale solar sail deployment test in a cleanroom at ManTech NeXolve's facility in Alabama.
By acquiring the assets of the for - profit Assessment Training Institute, the nonprofit testing giant will be able to offer a full suite of assessment services — ranging from large - scale state tests to the ongoing assessments that teachers use for instruction and grading on a weekly, daily, and minute - by - minute basis.
Today's decision sanctions school officials to conduct full - scale searches on a «reasonableness» standard whose only definite content is that it is not the same test as the «probable cause» standard found in the text of the Fourth Amendment.
Despite fraying of the two national consortia developing assessments tied to the new standards, schools are preparing for the first full - scale administration of those common - core - aligned tests.
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