The Eleventh International Congress on Sound and Vibration will be held in the Hotel Pribaltiyskaya, in St. Petersburg, Russia, 5-8 July, 2004. Abstracts for the conference should be submitted no later than 31 December, 2003.
Read more on the ICSV11 web site.
The ANSYS 2004 conference will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., between May 24-26, 2004. Technical paper topics address the complete spectrum of engineering applications from biomedical to aerospace with suggested topics that include accuracy in FEA, coupled-field analysis, fluid structure interaction, MEMS simulation, and probabilistic design.
Read more on the ANSYS web site.
The Active 2004 conference will be held in Williamsburg, Virginia USA, between 20-22 September 2004.
See the announcement on the INCE – USA web site.
A Japanese engineer has invented a wrist watch cell phone called “Whisper”, where the user places her finger in her ear canal to hear, and speaks into a microphone on the wrist band.
Read the journal paper at ACM Digital Library. Read a news release at Indiana University.
Koss are selling cordless noise cancelling headphones, model QZ50. Detailed technical information is not available from their web site.
See the Koss web site.
iGo are selling relatively cheap noise cancelling headphones. The technical specifications claim 12dB of noise reduction.
See the iGo web site.
MSC Software have released MSC.Patran 2004.
Read more on the MSC Software web site.
ANSYS version 8.0 has been released and includes serveral new features. Of particular interest to vibration engineers is the addition of component mode synthesis (click on the link below and the Structural tab on the left window), and also improvements with the multi-physics features.
Read more on the ANSYS web site.
LMS International have released a 4 channel analyzer called Pimento. The system is expandable up to 24 channels.
Read more on the LMS web site.
QinetiQ and Ultra Electronics have developed an active noise control system for the interior of aircraft to reduce broadband noise. The system uses active trim panels attached to the inside of the fuselage.
Read more on the QinetiQ web site.Read about the QinetiQ and Lufthansa alliance.