16th
January
2009
Testing the aged infrastructure
Part of any mechanical assembly process is the famous “torture test” suite, where a device is subject to various extremes of environment to see if there will be imminent failure. Not large, unique structures, I suppose, but things that are apt to be duplicated in later installations. So, how can you test things as large as, say, a city? Up here in Canada, we have our own testbed, colloquially known as winter.
posted in environment | Comments Off on Testing the aged infrastructure | 281 words
