Firm fined almost £100k after worker traps leg in road milling machine

A Leicestershire-based road-planing contractor has been fined £92,450 after an employee’s leg became entangled in a road milling machine and had to be amputated. The 32-year-old man, who was working for Power Plane, was operating the machine at Wade Road in Basingstoke on 14 February… The post Firm fined almost £100k after worker traps leg in road milling machine appeared first on Construction News.

Dubai Airport Drone Strikes Test Redundancy of a Global Aviation Hub

A drone strike on a fuel tank March 16 grounded plane traffic.

JetZero to build $4.7bn factory in North Carolina

JetZero, the California company shaking up airliner design, plans to build a $4.7bn plane factory at Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina. The plant will be able to… The post JetZero to build $4.7bn factory in North Carolina appeared first on Global Construction Review.

Hartsfield-Jackson Unveils New Plane Train Car With Eye Toward the Future

The latest generation of vehicles will help reduce passenger wait times ATLANTA – Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) marked a significant milestone today in its commitment to modernization and operational efficiency with the introduction of Innovia 300R vehicles to its Automated People Mover (APM) system, also known as the Plane Train. The Plane Train, which first […]

DC Air Crash Victims Include Kiewit, Other Contractor Managers, and University Engineering Major, 20

Firms, families mourn losses as industry crews and equipment aid federal effort to lift American Airlines plane wreckage from Potomac River by Feb. 6, then shift to helicopter removal and debris field clearing.

The Efficient Engineer - Understanding Plane Stress 08072019

This video looks at "plane stress", an assumption used in solid mechanics to simplify the analysis of a component by turning a 3D problem into a 2D one. For a plane stress condition to be applicable, all of the non-zero stress components should be acting in the same plane. This video looks at 3 examples of plane stress - a thin perforated plate, thin-walled pressure vessels, and thin gears. Plane stress is particularly relevant for thin components which are loaded in a single plane.