Dr  Antony Anderson CEng FIEE

• 1. Home Page   (Main page of website)

• 2. Electrical Failure Investigations

• Capability Statement on electrical machine investigations
• Recent Electrical Fault and other  Investigations
• Generator Core Failure Investigations
• A note on Generator Core Failures

Introduction : eddy currents in the magnetic circuit : foreign bodies : damage from vibrating teeth : end heating caused by eddy currents : problems back-of -core leakage flux : 
transient disturbances : interlaminar capacitance : disassociation of hydrogen : conclusions.

• Generator Core Fault Case History : Pacificorp Hunter 1 : 24/11/2000

• Automatic Cruise Control Problems   (Sudden unexplained acceleration) [9 pages]
• 1- Introduction
• 2 - Cruise Control : What is it?
• 3 - Cruise Control : Principles of operation and implementation  
• 4 - Cruise Control : Functional aspects : Possible modes of failure
• 5 - Cruise Control : Sudden Acceleration : what is it?
• 6 - Cruise Control : Frequency of sudden acceleration incidents and alleged examples
• Additional notes : Examples of intermittent failures on control systems outside the automobile industry
• 7 - Cruise Control : Possible internal intermittent failure mechanisms
• 8 - Cruise Control : Discusssion of failure mechanisms
• 9 - Cruise Control : Links and References

• 9.1 Links - How a cruise control system works 
• 9.2. Links -General background
• 9.3. Links - Miscellaneous material on sudden acceleration
• 9.4. Links -NHTSA
•  9.5. Links - References to particular manufacturers: 

• 9.6. Links - Alternatives to cruise control - EP1375 233 A1

• Ford Cruise deactivation switch
  


• Articles on the subject of  Failure:
• A  Museum of Failure    (New Scientist 8th June 1991)
• Lessons from disaster (New Scientist 5th June 1993)
• Making a success out of failure(Engineering Management Journal June 2001)


• 3. Previous Innovative Projects

• Switched reluctance motors
• Synchronous reluctance motors with axially-laminated rotors
• Helical windings for large AC generators
• Helical windings in electrical machines - explanatory note of principles
• Onboard power source for rotating telemetry
• Product Structure system for Power Generation Plant identification
• Object-based principles applied to Turbine Generator Plant design and manufacture

Innovation links
 
 
• 4. The Internet – Some websites designed by Antony Anderson

• Websites
• Colditz Gateway to Saxony : for the individual tourist    Website address: http://www.colditz-4c.com
• Johannes Matthaeus Koelz : presentation of  an artist whose reputation the Nazis tried to destroy http://www.koelz.org
• The Denney Case :  an art fraud investigation http://www.museum-security.org/denney/index.htm
• Diana Ross : presenting a children's author to new readers  http://www.diana-ross.co.uk
• An engineering approach to website design – Or how not to be dot-conned
 
• 5. Working with the European Commission

• 6. Curriculum Vitae

• 7. Published Papers etc

• Books
• Published Papers
• Patents
• Articles
• Obituary: DR. RICHARD HORE : Keeping Electricity supplies going over vast distances around the world : The Times Sept 6th 2000
• Spare a thought for the Ohm (New Scientist 7 May 1987) : Resistance isn't all bad.
• Brambleware (Guardian 29 Dec 1983) : For those who are baffled by computers.


• 8. Links
• Also Onyx website at http://web.onyxnet.co.uk/antony.anderson-onyxnet.co.uk

 
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