Cartographic Support of Fire Engine Navigation to Operation Site

2010 ◽  
pp. 113-128
Author(s):  
Vít Voženílek ◽  
Lenka Zajíčková
Keyword(s):  
Fire Engine

The Analysis and Design of a Fire Engine Safety Cab Using Finite Element Methods

1977 ◽  
Vol 191 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Miles ◽  
G. A. Wardill
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element ◽  
Computer Program ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Vehicle Structure ◽  
Collapse Analysis ◽  
Incremental Formulation ◽  
Analysis Computer ◽  
Fire Engine ◽  
Analysis Computer Program

A three dimensional structural collapse analysis computer program is described, and illustrated by reference to a safety vehicle structure analysed and designed using the program. The particular problems of large displacements and material non-linearity are accounted for, and a method of estimating the permanent set which results after impact is described. Based on an incremental formulation of the conventional finite-element method, the computer program is capable of tracing the complete load deflection characteristics of a structure up to and beyond the point of collapse.

Implementing and using finite automata toolkits

1996 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 295-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRUCE W. WATSON
Keyword(s):  
Flight Control ◽  
Program Verification ◽  
Finite Automata ◽  
Circuit Simulation ◽  
Implementation Strategies ◽  
Digital Circuit ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Genetic Sequencing ◽  
Java Program ◽  
Fire Engine

Finite automata and various extensions of them, such as transducers, are used in areas as diverse as compilers, spelling checking, natural language grammar checking, communication protocol design, digital circuit simulation, digital flight control, speech recognition and synthesis, genetic sequencing, and Java program verification. Unfortunately, as the number of applications has grown, so has the variety of implementations and implementation techniques. Typically, programmers will be confused enough to resort to their text books for the most elementary algorithms. Recently, advances have been made in taxonomizing algorithms for constructing and minimizing automata and in evaluating various implementation strategies Watson 1995. Armed with this, a number of general-purpose toolkits have been developed at universities and companies. One of these, FIRE Lite, was developed at the Eindhoven University of Technology, while its commercial successor, FIRE Engine II, has been developed at Ribbit Software Systems Inc. Both of these toolkits provide implementations of all of the known algorithms for constructing automata from regular expressions, and all of the known algorithms for minimizing deterministic finite automata. While the two toolkits have a great deal in common, we will concentrate on the structure and use of the noncommercial FIRE Lite. The prototype version of FIRE Lite was designed with compilers in mind. More recently, computation linguists and communications protocol designers have become interested in using the toolkit. This has led to the development of a much more general interface to FIRE Lite, including the support of both Mealy and Moore regular transducers. While such a toolkit may appear extremely complex, there are only a few choices to be made. We also consider a ‘recipe’ for making good use of the toolkits. Lastly, we consider the future of FIRE Lite. While FIRE Engine II has obvious commercial value, we are committed to maintaining a version which is freely available for academic use.

scholarly journals Humming 'Que Sera Sera'

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-43
Author(s):  
Russell Brown
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
The Media ◽  
Fire Engine

"'Jesus!' exclaimed Peter Arnett as the dull whoomp of an explosion sounded. Then, whoomp, again. Arnett was in the media centre at Palestine Hotel in central Baghdad, waiting to deliver a report by satelllite to someone called Eric. I know, because he was near a live microphone that was somehow feeding through the German webcam I was watching over the Internet, late on the evening of April 7. I had watched the webcam before, seen cars and buses circling Firdus Square and smoke crowding the horizon, but it had never had sound before. I could hear horns honking from the traffic, then, at one point, the sirens of two fire engine as they rush through..."

scholarly journals XXIX. The best proportions for steam-engine cylinders, of a given content, consider'd

1752 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 197-201 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Steam Engine ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Fire Engine

The fire-engine, or (to term it more properly) the steam-engine, for draining of mines, is a master-piece of machinery, a very capital contrivance in the works of art, and meriting our attention for further improvements.

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