104 research outputs found
Remembering a Time Before the Great Culture War
No full textGuy Mankowski offers some reflections on the culture war of 2021. Mankowski is the author of the upcoming book Albion's Secret History, a book that compiles snapshots of English pop culture’s rebels and outsiders, from Evelyn Waugh to PJ Harvey via The Long Blondes and The Libertines. By focusing on cultural figures who served to define England, Guy Mankowski looks at those who have really shaped Albion’s secret history, not just its oft-quoted official cultural history.</p
'Kristen Hovers At The Edge': First Chapter of 'I Know How To Live': The Life of Kristen Pfaff (with an afterword by Jason Pfaff).
No full textOpening chapter of biography of Kristen Pfaff by Guy Mankowski. ‘Mankowski, through painstaking research, has given a powerful voice to one of our lesser understood musical forces. A brilliant, alternative look at the 90s music scene.’ Lucy Nichol, author of The 27 Club. </p
TV Interview (North East Arts And Culture Show) for 'How I Left The National Grid: A Post-Punk Novel'
No full textNewcastle-based author Guy Mankowski talks to Olivia Swash from the North East Arts and Culture Show about his novel How I Left The National Grid.</p
A Dance Adaptation of 'Letters from Yelena'
No full textFootage from the launch of the novel 'Letters from Yelena' by Guy Mankowski. An evening of artistic collaboration bringing Literature and Dance to one stage - with UK based author Guy Mankowski and choreography by the acclaimed Dora Frankel (Bitter, Sweet and Dark and One Small Step/One More Step) and the dancer Laila Sanz. A dance piece, set to an original soundtrack by Jeremy Bradfield, with a reading from Guy's novel 'Letters from Yelena', performed at Dance City, Newcastle. Filming- Hal Branson. Credit- Legend Press</p
A Wind Tunnel Simulation Facility for On-Road Transients
No full textThis paper outlines the creation of a facility for simulating on-road transients in a model scale, ¾ open jet, wind tunnel.
Aerodynamic transients experienced on-road can be important in relation to a number of attributes including vehicle handling and aeroacoustics. The objective is to develop vehicles which are robust to the range of conditions that they will experience. In general it is cross wind transients that are of greatest significance for road vehicles. On-road transients include a range of length scales but the most important scales are in the in the 2-20 vehicle length range where there are significant levels of unsteadiness experienced, the admittance is likely to be high, and the reduced frequencies are in a band where a dynamic test is required to correctly determine vehicle response.
Based on measurements of on-road conditions, the aim was for the turbulence generation system to achieve yaw angles up to 6-8°, equating to a lateral turbulence intensity of 8-10% with a frequency range extending up to 10 Hz. In a wind tunnel, the generation of scales larger than the scale of the vehicle is impractical with passive grids and so an active turbulence generation system is required. The system includes a pair of vertical airfoils at the upstream end of the test section. The yawing of the wind tunnel jet requires correct handling at the downstream end of the test section and hence additional outlets were incorporated with cascading shutters to control collector width and effective location. Similarly, additional, shuttered, inlets were incorporated at the upstream end of the test section. The maximum steady state yaw angle range achieved was ±8° steady state, extending to ±11° in dynamic operation. The turbulence generation system can be programmed to reproduce specific events as measured on-road, with time appropriately scaled for model testing.
Tests with a vehicle model validated that the turbulence generation system operating in a steady state mode results in the same steady forces as achieved yawing the model on a turntable. The system's ability to model specific on-road conditions was also demonstrated
Modelling the corrosion behaviour of Al2CuMg coarse particles in copper-rich aluminium alloys
No full textThe corrosion behaviour of 2024 aluminium alloy in sulphate solutions was studied; attention was focused on the influence of coarse intermetallic Al2CuMg particles on the corrosion resistance of the alloy. Model alloys representative of the aluminium matrix and of Al2CuMg coarse intermetallics were synthesized by magnetron sputtering. Open-circuit potential measurements, current–potential curve plotting and galvanic coupling tests were performed in sulphate solutions with or without chlorides. Further explanations were deduced from the study of the passive films grown on model alloys in sulphate solutions. The results showed that model alloys are a powerful tool to study the corrosion behaviour of aluminium alloys
Study of the microstructure resulting from brazed aluminium materials used in heat exchangers
No full textRe-solidification of AA4343 cladding after brazing as well as the related precipitation in the modified AA3003 core material have been investigated. Analysis of the re-solidified material showed that partial dissolution of the core alloy occurs in both the brazing joints and away of them. Far from the brazing joints, the dissolution is, however, limited and diffusion of silicon from the liquid into the core material leads to solid-state precipitation in the so-called “band of dense precipitates” (BDP). On the contrary, the dissolution is enhanced in the brazing joint to such an extent that no BDP could be observed. The intermetallic phases present in the resolidified areas as well as in the core material have been analyzed and found to be mainly cubic alpha-Al(Mn,Fe)Si. These results were then compared to predictions made with available phase diagram information
A Floating Question Mark: An Interview with Sara Hawys Roberts, Author of Withdrawn Traces: Searching For The Truth About Richey Manic
No full textAn interview with Sara Hawys Roberts, co-author of 'Withdrawn Traces: Searching For The Truth About Richey Manic' about the researching and writing of this much-anticipated book about the missing Manic Street Preacher.</p
A Floating Question Mark: An Interview with Sara Hawys Roberts, Author of Withdrawn Traces: Searching For The Truth About Richey Manic
No full textAn interview with Sara Hawys Roberts, co-author of 'Withdrawn Traces: Searching For The Truth About Richey Manic' about the researching and writing of this much-anticipated book about the missing Manic Street Preacher.</p
Examination as to jurisdiction and admissibility
No full textIn this prestigious international work, the Author has been called to give an exhaustive comment to the whole Section 8 – Examination as to jurisdiction - of Regulation 44/2001 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters.
Precisely, the contribution discloses the critical issues connected to articles 25 and 26 making constant reference to the national and European case law as well as to the doctrinal debate arisen at the academic level.
In this context the Author faces the interpretative problems arising out of the rules contained in Section 8 proposing a European Union oriented reading that considers the whole intervention of European institutions in the field of judicial cooperation in civil and commercial matters
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