St James and the Good Shepherd: windows on the landscape

Two New Zealand churches completed in the 1930s, St James' Church at Franz Josef/Waiau (James Stuart Turnbull and Percy Watts Rule, 1931) and the Church of the Good Shepherd on the shores of Lake Tekapo (Richard Strachan De Renzy Harman, 1935), feature large plate glass windows behind the altar, affording expansive views of the natural landscape beyond. This represented a significant departure from prevailing ecclesiastical design ideas of the time, with the interior of the churches being intimately connected to the landscape outside, rather than the usual largely internalized atmosphere with any sense of the surroundings limited to light coming through strategically placed decorative or stained-glass windows. It is, however, a design aesthetic that has seldom been utilized in New Zealand since. This paper traverses the history and design of the two churches and their relationships with the landscapes in which they are situated, and concludes that St James' Church provides a heightened religious experience and is a more successful metaphor for the Christian journey.

ABOUT SOME FEATURES OF EXPLOSIVE WELDING OF LARGE THICKNESS ALUMINUM WITH STEEL

The practical possibility of obtaining by explosive welding at one time of large plate aluminum with steel with a joint strength of more than 100 MPa is shown.

Karakteristik Sifat Mekanik Wadah Makanan dari Limbah Daun Pisang Kering

The objective of this research is to determine the physical quality of food media, consisting of small plate, large plate and small bowl. The method used of this research is testing the water absorption and resistance of the food media’s temperature. The process of making a food media using a stainless steel mold which is heated using a food thermometer with 100 and a load of 10 kg as a pressure, then it is printed for 5 minutes with 4 times taking the data for each food media. There are two testing of food media, the first test is water absorption with 29.5 for 125 miles into a small plate, 200 miles into a small bowl and 250 miles into a large plate for 60 minutes, the average value of the water absorption test for the Non-woven food media consists of three forms food medias have 0.00 as the same result, meanwhile woven media such as small plate has 65.00 , large plate has 44.83 and small bowl has 66.68 . Second test is resistance of the food medias based on temperature parameters. The temperatures used were 40, 60, 80 for non-woven food media consists of three forms food media which had few change after drying, while for woven food media consists three forms of food media had the same results, that is seepage (leaking) in the food media.

CISCC Experiment of a Large Plate Sectioned From a Spent Nuclear Fuel Canister

As a long-term demonstration of chloride-induced stress corrosion cracking (CISCC) driven by welding residual stress (WRS), a large section (approximately 51 × 46 cm with thickness 16 mm and weight about 30 kg), which contains a circumferential weld, was cut from a full-size mockup canister. Through-wall and part-through-wall (surface) starter cracks, either parallel or perpendicular to the weld, were fabricated with electrical discharge machining (EDM) in the weld region. The stress intensity factors (KI) for each machined starter crack under canister WRS were estimated so as to provide insight into the propensity for crack initiation and growth. Dry salt was applied over these machined cracks on the surface of the large plate and natural deliquescence was allowed to take place at room temperature and 75% RH. This test has been on-going for ten months and the evolution of general corrosion near the starter cracks is monitored and documented; no CISCC has been observed. Two EDM starter cracks have been isolated for five months for a simultaneous experiment with extra salt loading; additional deliquescence and significant corrosion activity have been observed.