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Coffee time challenge solution: "Getting a handle on doors"
Abbas Taheri Pour has invented a solution to last month’s challenge – on how to open doors when your hands are full – which he calls an ‘Ergonomic Swing Door’
 14/09/2008 

Web of intrigue
An adhesive solution for handling fine pharmaceutical powders could also make an impact in the food and cosmetic industries, reports Tom Shelley
 19/08/2008 

Bevel gear latch offers 12mm compression
A compression latch uses a bevel gear for actuation so as to achieve more compression at low torque while ensuring strength and durability. A roller at the end of the cam minimises scrape damage to panels
 19/08/2008 

Brazing joint boosts titanium enclosures
A new type of brazing joint will help designers to improve the thermal properties of hermetic titanium enclosures
 13/07/2008 

Mushroom heads give strong re-usable grip
Plastic strips equipped with hemispherical-headed ‘mushrooms’ provide a particularly strong reversible bond when pressed together
 19/06/2008 

Joined together
Delegates at the Joining Technologies Design Day learnt about lots of new techniques in joining – and the best way to pull their fingers apart after a superglue accident. Lou Reade reports
 19/06/2008 

Mussel-inspired adhesives will bond in human implants
Researchers in Germany are developing a UV hardenable adhesive technology to bond implants into the human body
 06/05/2008 

Explosive thinking
Aluminium can be welded to steel for ships and offshore structures by incorporating explosively bonded transition joints
 06/05/2008 

Dispensing with keys and keyways
Bushings made up of split sleeves and locknuts do away with keys and keyways and associated maintenance problems on a mine type ride for a European theme park
 06/05/2008 

Joining in
Advances in bonding, welding, joining and fastening will be explained in greater depth at Eureka’s ‘Joining Technologies’ Design Day next month
 10/04/2008 

Self-adhesive rubber films make solar cells more cost effective
Centrosolar Group, headquartered in Paderbon, Germany and Lanxess have developed a production method for solar cells that only requires that wafers be placed between two self adhesive 0.5mm thick films of “Levamelt”, a new ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA).
 09/04/2008 

Captive fastener snaps to it
Dirak has brought out a captive fastener that uses its D-Snap technology to allow it to be installed in a moment in suitably stamped cut-outs
 14/03/2008 

F1 expertise fuels engineering breakthrough
Tom Shelley reports on radical design technologies developed in Formula 1 and now being made available for mainstream engineering
 09/02/2008 

Time for a little bonding
Two techniques developed at Fraunhofer Institutes could lead to stronger glasses that are made more quickly and cheaply. Lou Reade reports
 09/02/2008 

U clamps the key to rapid scaffolding
Ingenious screw-up ‘U’ element clamps, are key to the success of the Lobo Systems method of quickly erecting scaffolding, platforms and temporary structures
 14/11/2007 

Single component speeds flat pack fastening
A single fastener type and a system of tee shaped slots and holes greatly eases the assembly of flat pack furniture
 13/11/2007 

Close bonds in the new stone age
Tom Shelley reports on leading edge developments in joining ceramics
 24/09/2007 

Springing into action to secure sheet metal edges into brickwork
A simple spring wedge with an indentation has been devised to secure lead sheet edges pushed into gaps in brickwork
 20/07/2007 

Lockable system secures access to large holes
There are increasing security concerns about the consequences of unauthorised persons gaining access to drains and underground services
 20/07/2007 

Silicon ‘Velcro’ exerts needle-like grip
Tom Shelley reports on a breakthrough in dry adhesive bonding
 12/06/2007 

It’s bond – ultra-thin bond
Ultra-thin materials can now be joined without using glue or welding filler wire, as Julie Bieles reports
 12/06/2007 

Gripping solutions
A hand clamp is able to grip hard with a 500N holding force, because it combines both screw and wedge actions
 12/06/2007 

Join together
Tom Shelley reports on a technique similar to adhesive bonding that will join dissimilar materials to one another
 14/05/2007 

Dog point prevents cross threading
A new screw uses a special tip and thread form start that eliminates cross threading
 13/03/2007 

Snap to it for fast assembly
Tom Shelley reports on some clever innovations in snap-together assemblies
 13/03/2007 

 
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