Metalcasting Presentation Given to Boeing Engineers.On January 25, a presentation was conducted for 150 mechanical engineers, designers, stress engineers and purchasing employees of the Boeing Co.'s Everett, Washington plant. The program was presented by Wayne Rasmussen, AFS A distributed file system for large, widely dispersed Unix and Windows networks from Transarc Corporation, now part of IBM. It is noted for its ease of administration and expandability and stems from Carnegie-Mellon's Andrew File System. AFS - Andrew File System , and John Griffin, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB UAB Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona UAB University of Alabama at Birmingham UAB Union of Arab Banks UAB Uzdaroji Akcine Bendrove (Lithuanian: closed stock company UAB Unix AppleTalk Bridge UAB Unaccompanied Air Baggage UAB Until Advised By ), including discussions of appropriate casting processes and examples of applications and properties, applications of the 'casting factor," needs for foundry evaluation and sources of reference materials available through AFS. Griffin made presentations on the American Metalcasting Consortium (AMC (Advanced Mezzanine Card) See AdvancedTCA. ) programs that are starting at UAB under AFS steering efforts. These included digital radiography digital radiography Imaging A format for producing x-rays in which film used to produce conventional x-ray images is replaced with more sensitive sensitive electronics; DXRs produce images with1⁄2 and fluid flow modeling. Following the presentation, Rasmussen and Griffin met with several Boeing engineers and program managers to discuss their participation in the UAB digital radiography project, which is sponsored by AMC and Dept. of Defense. |
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