Author:Reinecke, John D; Snyman, IM; Ahmed, R; Beetge, FJDate:Nov 2008The understanding of shallow-buried near-field anti-vehicular mine explosions is crucial to the research, development and validation of vehicle and occupant protection systems. This paper presents research executed on various explosive charge ...Read more
Author:Reinecke, John D; Snyman, IM; Ahmed, R; Beetge, FJDate:Nov 2008The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of vehicle landmine protection validation testing in South Africa. A short history of validation test standards is given, followed by a summary of current open test standards in general ...Read more
Author:Canbulat, I; Van der Merwe, JNDate:Mar 2000This research report includes a detailed literature review on acts and procedures in other major coal producing countries, an underground monitoring programme in various mining districts and numerical modelling. The literature review showed ...Read more
Author:Holtmann, B; Jansen Van Vuuren, CDate:Jul 2007There is a tendency to think of road or transport safety as a separate subject from safety and security, yet the two are closely interwoven. The paper will make some of these connections, referring to local and where relevant international ...Read more
Author:Hecker, GFKDate:Apr 1996The current South African regulations for sizing of mine winder ropes were introduced during 1956, based mainly on circumstantial evidence. A more rational approach was required to meet the demands for improved guarantees of safety and for ...Read more
Author:Hecker, GFK; Van Zyl, MNDate:Apr 1996The steering committee on factors of safety of winder ropes has appointed a working group to draw up a set of proposals for changing the regulations governing the required rope strength in the Minerals Act. Certain research projects have been ...Read more
Author:Borrello, M; Van Zyl, MN; Wainwright, EJDate:Apr 1996Previous work which was carried out on splice demonstrated that the efficiency of this type of termination was sensitive to both rigger skill and operating loads. It was therefore suggested that future research should be aimed at identifying ...Read more
Author:Borrello, M; Kuun, TC; Wainwright, EJ; James, A; Hecker, GFKDate:Jun 1996The aim of this investigation was the verification of the code of Practice for Rope Condition Assessment. Ropes were meant to be discarded according to the discard criteria as outlined in the code and then tested by the CSIR. The results of ...Read more
Author:Wainwright, EJ; Kuun, TC; Borello, M; Hecker, GFKDate:Apr 1996An objective of this study guide for “wire rope inspectors” was to provide an overview of the training modules and to identify the most important features of winder operation and rope inspection.Read more
Author:Hecker, GFK; Kroonstuiver, JDate:Apr 1996This research study attempts to determine the maximum rope force in the rope of a mine winding system subsequent to a break control system failure. Four different winder ropes were evaluated: a 4000m Blair multi system; a 2300m Blair multi ...Read more
Author:Taute, BJEDate:Nov 2008This paper reviews Safety and Security in the CSIR since the initiative was started towards the end of 1996. Motivated by the reality of high levels of crime and violence, the CSIR vision is to be a national centre of competence for integrative ...Read more
Author:Roux, JD; Dreyer, E; Wainwright, KADate:May 1999The subject of this specification is safety detaching hooks for mine shaft conveyances.
According to South African Law1 it is a legal requirement for all winding systems, where the end of the winding rope is fastened to the drum of the winding ...Read more
Author:Coetzee, L; Seetharam, D; Butgereit, L; Van Gelder, ADate:May 2010South Africa produces a large number of engineering and computer science graduates annually. There is a perception that many of these graduates are not work ready and require additional training before they can contribute to large scale ...Read more
Author:Ocwelwang, A; Sithole, Bishop B; Ramjugemath, DDate:Jul 2014Dissolving pulp refers to purified wood derived chemical pulps made up of more than 90% cellulose content and traces of other wood components such as hemicellulose and lignin. This poster highlights the irradiation treatment of dissolving ...Read more
Author:Smith, S; Naidoo, T; Davies, E; Fourie, L; Nxumalo, Z; Swart, H; Marais, P; Land, K; Roux, PDate:Feb 2015We present a visualization pipeline from sample to answer for point-of-care blood cell counting applications. Effective and low-cost point-of-care medical diagnostic tests provide developing countries and rural communities with accessible ...Read more
Author:Aghaei, VT; SeyyedAbbasi, AS; Rasheed, J; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Mar 2023The control of the open loop unstable systems with nonlinear structure is challenging work. In this paper, for the first time, we present a sand cat swarm optimization (SCSO) algorithm-based state feedback controller design for open-loop ...Read more
Author:Matsebe, GDate:Nov 2006South Africa is one of the countries facing the challenge of meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for sanitation. At least five percent of the South African population consists of people with disabilities (PWDs) and the question ...Read more
Author:Duncker, Louiza CDate:Jul 2013Limited understanding of the characteristics of different sanitation technology options may affect acceptance of certain technologies in certain circumstances, as well as lead to little appreciation by the users of the long-term financial, ...Read more
Author:Steenkamp, Karen C; Wessels, Konrad J; Archibald, S; Von Maltitz, Graham PDate:May 2009Remotely-sensed phenological metrics (or phenometrics) were derived from AVHRR vegetation-index time-series data and to describes seasonal growth in terms of start, end, length of season and estimates of net primary production (NPP). This ...Read more