Author:Hobbs, PJDate:Nov 2008The significance and importance of groundwater level data in a karst environment, whilst acknowledged by geotechnical engineers and engineering geologists, is often not afforded the recognition it deserves. Within the ambit of a geotechnical ...Read more
Author:Bugan, Richard DH; Jovanovic, Nebojsa; May, F; Dzikiti, SebinasiDate:Sep 2011Groundwater recharge is the basis for accurate estimation of groundwater resources, for determining the modes of water allocation and groundwater resource susceptibility to climate change. Accurate estimations of groundwater recharge with ...Read more
Author:Williams, Quentin RDate:Oct 2017This presentation briefly discusses problems/trends such as unemployment, lack of advanced skills, import-driven economy, and the nature of the South African ICT sector. Digital innovation is put forward as a disruptor of mentioned trends.Read more
Author:Kleynhans, TheoDate:Oct 2017This presentation discusses the growth and transformation of the South African Defence Industry from a state owned perspective.Read more
Author:Jacobs, D; Kotzé, Paula; Van der Merwe, ADate:Apr 2017A key constraint for growing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in South Africa is the business skills required to grow the enterprises through the stages of transformation. Business process management (BPM) is one of the skills that could ...Read more
Author:Moustafa, N; Choo, K-K R; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Mar 2022Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems are increasingly found in settings such as factories, smart cities/nations, and healthcare institutions. These systems facilitate the interconnection of automation and data analytics across different ...Read more
Author:Clinton, D; Cleland, A; Sanio, M; Botha, D; Wall, K; Negussey, D; Lewis, SDate:Oct 2010WFEO’s Standing Committee on Capacity Building (CCB) has over the years developed an understanding of the challenges and complexities that face the engineering community regarding capacity and sustainability issues. With the objective of ...Read more
Author:Yenwong Fai, AS; Durrheim, RJ; Hildyard, MWDate:Sep 2012Mining-induced seismic events pose a serious risk to workers in deep mines. Accurate numerical simulations are useful in analyzing the problem and developing mitigation strategies. Here we tackle the problem of guided interfacial elastic wave ...Read more
Author:Loveday, Philip WDate:Apr 2012Cost-effective NDE of the vast length of ageing railway track around the world remains challenge for the community. Since continuously welded railway lines may be thought of as one-dimensional elastic waveguides, they are natural candidates ...Read more
Author:Loveday, Philip W; Wilcox, PDDate:Mar 2010Guided wave propagation has been proposed as a means to monitor the axial loads in continuously welded railway rails although no practical system has been developed. In this paper, the influence of axial load on the guided wave propagation ...Read more
Author:Bischof-Niemz, Thomas; Roro, Kittessa TDate:Sep 2015This paper presents a guideline for public entities on cost-efficient procurement of PV assets. Traditionally, screening of the responses to the request for proposal for the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) of a photovoltaic ...Read more
Author:Bischof-Niemz, T; Roro, Kittessa TDate:Sep 2015Traditionally, when public entities buy an asset under an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract, the screening of the responses to the request for proposals is done in two stages: In a filter stage, all proposals that are ...Read more
Author:Sibiya, G; Venter, HS; Ngobeni, Sipho J; Fogwill, TDate:Aug 2012Cloud computing is a new computing paradigm that presents fresh research issues in the field of digital forensics. Cloud computing builds upon virtualisation technologies and is distributed in nature. Depending on its implementation, the cloud ...Read more
Author:Mxoli, Ncedisa AM; Mostert, N; Gerber, MDate:Mar 2019Traditionally, health records have been stored in paper folders at the physician’s consulting rooms - or at the patient’s home. With the rise of technology there have been many offerings of ways to store health records in a safer and better ...Read more
Author:Purdy, G; Van Breda, C; Strohbach, H; Raath, JB; Godfrey, H; Kruger, MDate:Jul 1997The project was focused on the development of guidelines for the training of operators using high risk underground coal mining machinery. During the survey conducted it was noted that the multi-ethic nature of the machine operators made ...Read more
Author:Fourie, GA; Van Niekerk, DJDate:Nov 2001Mine planning and design involves the compilation and integration of all relevant geological, geotechnical, mining, engineering and economic data into a single document to define and describe the exploitation strategy for a particular mineral ...Read more
Author:Shatalov, MY; Joubert, SV; Coetzee, CE; Fedotov, IDate:Jul 2007In symmetric distributed structures subjected to vibration and an inertial rotation, the vibrating patterns turn in the direction of revolution at a rate proportional to the inertial angular rate. This effect has numerous applications in ...Read more