Author:Teleka, Ruth; Green, J; Dickens, JDate:2013The South African mining industry is plagued by accidents ranging from vehicle incidents to roof/rock falls. In the attempt to carry out its mandate of improving the quality of life of South African citizens, the Council for Scientific and ...Read more
Author:Green, JJDate:Nov 2012The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa is currently developing a robot for the inspection of the ceiling (hanging wall) in an underground gold mine. The robot autonomously navigates the 30 meter long by 3 ...Read more
Author:Wall, K; Rust, C; Amod, S; Botha, DDate:01 Sep 2010In 2006, the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE), utilising desktop research documentation prepared for this specific purpose by the CSIR, released the first ever “report card” of the state of engineering infrastructure in ...Read more
Author:Maina, JDate:Oct 2012In this presentation the author outlines the CSIR contribution to the Revision of South African Pavement Design Method.Read more
Author:Sigawuke, Busisiwe PDate:Mar 2018This presentation discusses energy topics such as biogas, bioenergy, and the CSIR Energy-Autonomous Campus.Read more
Author:Mukoma, PeterDate:May 2018This presentation focuses on diverse energy solutions and highlights the CSIR's energy autonomous campus programme. The importance of a long-term strategic vision regarding campus energy is recognized as well as South Africa's endowment with ...Read more
Author:Carter-Brown, ClintonDate:Dec 2021Presentation on the South Africa has an electricity crisis – Energy Planning is critical to guide the solutions and opportunities. South Africa has been on a 10+ year iteration of the national electricity plan (IRP).Read more
Author:Anandjiwala, RDate:Oct 2012Over the past few years, the CSIR has made a significant investment into fibres and biocomposite research and infrastructure at its Port Elizabeth campus. The Department of Science and Technology (DST) has invested
approximately R10.8 million ...Read more
Author:Green, Chéri A; Argue, TDate:Oct 2012The CSIR has developed guidelines for access norms and thresholds to facilitate the planning of social facilities and recreational spaces in a range of settlements. These guidelines have been developed over many years by the CSIR and have ...Read more
Author:Naidoo, KavendraDate:Oct 2017This presentation gives a brief summary of past and current activities in South African
aerospace. An overview of CSIR capabilities in aerospace is also supplied, together with opportunities for industry impact.Read more
Author:Sharma, Ameeth; Singh, Ann; Roberts, Ted; Ramokolo, Lesiba R; Van der Westhuizen, CorrieDate:Nov 2016The optical coherence technique (OCT) technique, which was demonstrated by Fercher and Huang in the early 90s, has made significant strides in bio-medical diagnostic applications in the fields of dermatology, dentistry and ophthalmology. Other ...Read more
Author:Sivakumar, V; Sharma, Ameeth; Moema, D; Bollig, C; Van Der Westhuizen, C; Van Wyk, HDate:May 2008A mobile LIDAR system is being developed at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) National Laser Centre (NLC), Pretoria (25°5' S; 28°2' E), South Africa. The system is primarily designed for measuring trace gases/pollutants ...Read more
Author:Sivakumar, V; Sharma, Ameeth; Chiloane, K; Naidoo, S; Lynch, EDate:Sep 2011In this paper, the authors present a night-time continuous CSIR-NLC mobile observation of highaltitude cirrus cloud. The LIDAR measurements will also elucidate the aerosol concentration, optical depth, cloud position, thickness and other ...Read more
Author:Labuschagne, FJJDate:Jul 2009The CSIR's NyendaWeb programme is developed to provide support to the road safety and traffic management fraternity particularly to efforts aimed at stopping the carnage on South African roads and then also to achieve sustainability in transport ...Read more
Author:Labuschagne, FJJDate:Jul 2008The improved access to transport and traffic data by researchers will greatly benefit general Research & Development (R&D) in the fields of road traffic and safety engineering, and traffic management. Obtaining historic data for transport and ...Read more
Author:Labuschagne, FJJ; Bello, ODate:May 2009The paper describes the NyendaWeb technical development concept, the role of NyendaWeb within the ITS Lab collaboratory® as an international ITS R&D platform, and how the inherent, unobtrusive and 24/7 measurement functionality of NyendaWeb ...Read more
Author:Willers, Cornelius J; Delport, JP; Willers, MSDate:01 Sep 2010The Optronic Scene Simulator (OSSIM) is a second-generation scene simulator that creates synthetic images of arbitrary complex scenes in the visual and infrared (IR) bands, covering the 0.2 to 20 μm spectral region. These images are radiometrically ...Read more
Author:Trollip, NeilDate:Oct 2017This presentation discusses Advanced Robotics and Emerging manufacturing technologies by Dr Neil Trollip, at the 6th CSIR Conference: Ideas that work for industrial development, 5-6 October 2017, CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, ...Read more
Author:Vilakazi, BusisiweDate:Oct 2017This presentation is focused on development and innovation initiatives in the medical device and diagnostic industry. It is presented by Dr Busisiwe Vilakasi at The 6th CSIR Conference: Ideas that work for industrial development, 5-6 October ...Read more