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Testing Explosives
Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center,
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Building car bombs and examining scorched sedans. Shooting supermarket
chickens at helicopter windshields to calculate winged hazards.
“Field work” takes on a whole new meaning at New Mexico
Tech’s Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center (EMRTC),
the nation’s leading lab for studying explosives—from
tiny air-bag charges to 50,000-pound blasts.
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Simulated Natural Disaster
Tsunami Wave Basin, O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory,
Oregon State University College of Engineering
The slight bulge of water rolling toward Seaside, Ore., hardly
looked menacing. But its destructive power became viscerally clear
to the students and researchers who built this scale-model simulation
when a towering tsunami slammed into the beachfront promenade. “I’ve
never had a project that people reacted to like this one,”
says Daniel Cox, associate professor of civil and construction engineering
and director of the O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory at Oregon
State University’s College of Engineering in Corvallis. “They
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Underwater with Robots
Neutral Buoyancy Research Facility, A. James Clark
School of Engineering, University of Maryland
Limbs float weightlessly. Nothing rises or falls. Plunging into
the giant swimming pool known as the Neutral Buoyancy Research Facility
(NBRF) at the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School
of Engineering, says its director, David Akin, “is the closest
you can get to being an astronaut without having to live in Houston.”
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