Victorian Institute of Engineers
(EsTARI,ISITED 1883.)
1930, MAY 23RD PROCEEDINGS
A General Meeting of the Institute was held at the Kelvin Hall, 55 Collins Place, Melbourne, on 23rd May, at 8 p.m.
THE PRESIDENT (Mr. Roy J. Bennie) occupied the chair.
The minutes of the Annual General Meeting of 26th March were read and confirmed.
A letter from the Secretary of the Supervisors' and Clerks of Works' Association, requesting assistance of this Institute in finding employment for some of its members, was received.
ARCHITECTS' REGISTRATION.—The PRESIDENT said that nominations for new members of the Architects' Registra- tion Board had not been invited until nearly two months after the statutory date. The omission, no doubt, occurred on account of confusion following the death of Mr. Campbell, the late Registrar. But, as a result, there was a doubt whether the constitution of the new Board would be valid. In view of the serious consequences to engineers and others seeking registra- tion during the term of office of members of the new Board, and to their clients, if it should later be proved that the con- stitution of the Board was invalid, the Institute, after failing to secure adequate explanation of the authority under which the Registrar was now acting, had entered protest and conveyed its protest to the Minister.
MR. J. T. WILKINS read a paper entitled "Modern Fire Engineering Practice," and exhibited a large number of instru- ments used in fire detection and fire signalling.
MR. A. E. HUGHES moved a hearty vote of thanks to Mr.
Wilkins. Mr. A. E. Battle seconded the motion, which was carried with acclamation.
Messrs. Hughes, Battle, Rowe, and Grove contributed to the discussion.
The meeting terminated at 10.55 p.m.
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DIGEST OF ARTICLES IN OVERSEAS EXCHANGES
The HON. LIBRARIAN, Mr. Rowe, contributed the following notes : Institution of Civil Engineers : Standards of Thermal Efficiency for Internal Combustion Motors—Plastic Yield, Shrinkage, and other Problems of Concrete. Institution of Mechanical Engineers : Modern Feed-water Circuits--Research by Small Scale Apparatus--Synopsis of Present State of Know- ledge of the Hardness and Abrasion Testing of Metals ; The Marine Oil Engine; Steam Nozzles Research, Fifth Report;
Waste Heat Recovery; Reorganisation of Crewe Works; Causes of Failure of Wrought Iron Chain arid Cable; Wire Ropes Research, Third Report ; Expansion of High Temperature Gases in Nozzles; Mechanical Testing of Materials; Waste Heat Boilers ; Trend of Modern Locomotive Design ; Power Trans- mission, by Belts ; Report on Machinabil.ity ; Properties of Cold Drawn Wires ; Locomotive Fire Box Conditions.
Institute of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Vol.
LXXII.: Use of Monel Metal in Welding Cast Iron; Naviga- tion-Imperial Defence Problems; Gear Transmission; On the Distortion of a Curved Member by Forces Applied to its Ends;
Rational Use of Heat Transmission; Factors in Design; Low Temperature Carbonisation ; The Choice of Propelling Machin- ery; The Semi-fluid State of Lubrication; The Deformation of Metals, with special reference to the Tensile Test; Nitrard;
Pulverised Fuel To-day; Energy Charts for Efficiencies of Internal Combustion Engines ; Application of Monel Matter in Engineering and Shipbuilding.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers : Progress in Aeronautics ; Measurements of Flow of Air and Gases with Nozzles; Strength of Steel Columns ; Strength of Rotating Discs; Stresses in Drive System of Three Cylinder Locos.; Com- bustion and Heat Transfer; Coal Ash Laboratory Fusibility Determinations; Factors Governing the Purchase of Coal, Pro- perties of Refractories and their Relation to Conditions of Ser- vice; Use of Fuels in Brick Kilns; A New Propeller Type High Speed Wind Mill; Progress irr Gas Producer Practice; The Burning of Liquid Fuel ; Waste Packed Armature Bearings;
Effect of Entrance and Discharge Angles on the Performance of a Centrifugal Fan; Investigation of Insulated Walls; Pro- perties of Refractories and their Relation to Conditions of Service; Automatic , Combustion Control; Economies of Air Pre-heaters; Dry Quenching of Coke by Sulzer Process; Eco-
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nomics of Coal Carbonization in U.S. A. ; Direct Firing of Boilers with Producer Gas; Stresses and Reactions in Expan- sion Pipe Bends ; Pulverised Coal Firing of Marine Boilers ; Some Factors in Furnace Design for High Capacity ; Progress in Central Station Use of Pulverised Coal; Railway Practice in Utilisation and Conservation of Coal; Graphic Method of Com- puting Boiler Heat Balance ; Flow of Water over a Vee Notch ; Sugar Warehouse Conveying Systems ; Diesel Engine Develop- ment ; Pumping Problems in Paper Mills ; Railroad Matters ; Electric Interlocking Systems; Pulp and Paper Industry; Lac- quer and Varnish Films ; Utilisation of Wood Waste as Fuel ; Wood Burning Furnaces.
Journal of the Franklyn Institute : Magneta Alloys of Iron, Nickel and Cobalt ; Nitrogen and the Fertiliser Industry ; Air- craft Detectors and Anti-aircraft Problems.
Transactions of the Liverpool Engineering Society : Materials in Metal Aircraft; Modern Steel Framework for Building Con- struction ; Sanitation on Ships ; Reheating Furnaces ; Growth of Dimensions of Ships and its Bearing on Ports in Australia ; High Pressure Thermal Storage ; Notes from a Ship Surveyor 's Diary; Chain as a Medium of Power Transmission; Woodesen on Pulverised Coal ; Davies on Induction Motors.
