Animation of aluminium extrusion process

We have added an animation illustrating a complete cycle of aluminium extrusion production, including die heating and transfer, billet heating, transfer to press, extrusion, cooling, sawing, stretching, stacking and ageing.

The animation is available in Flash format (SWF) and as a video on YouTube and is released for re-use under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license.

A course on nanosciene and technology from NanoHUB.org

"Introduction to Nano Science and Technology" package from NanoHUB.org has been released. This is a comprehensive course consisting of presentations, notes and flash animations with audio narritives. The course covers topics in fundamental nanoscale science, plus an overview of areas in nanotechnology.
 

NanoHUB.org packages are released under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike license. NanoHUB.org is a resource for nanoscience and technology, created by the NSF-funded Network for Computational Nanotechnology.

Views of TALAT lectures pass 200,000 mark

151 of TALAT lectures from TALAT package on CORE-materials have received number of reads of  107,296 on Slideshare and 97,016 on Scribd respectively. TALAT - Training in Aluminium Application Technologies - is the most comprehensive collection of aluminium  training materials for engineers and researchers in industry and universities.

Material Selection Case Studies from Granta Design released

A set of seven interactive material selection case studies, which use performance indices, has been just released. They are based on projects in the book "Materials Selection for Mechanical Design" by Mike Ashby, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge and the CES EduPack, a materials education resource created by Granta Design Ltd. The animations are available under a Creative Commons Attribution -NonCommercial - ShareAlike license.

Two modules from OpenLearn released

"OpenLearn: Manufacturing Processes" and "OpenLearn: Introduction to Polymers" packages have been released.  

All OpenLearn packages are released under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike license. OpenLearn gives you free access to learning materials from The Open University.

Teaching Engineering textbook by Peter J. Goodhew now released

We have now released Teaching Engineering textbook by Peter J. Goodhew under a BY-SA Creative Commons license.

This book is aimed at practising teachers of engineering and physical sciences at undergraduate or taught postgraduate level. It is intended to be based on clear research evidence and to explain as clearly as possible what the educational terminology actually means for the lecturer.

The book can be also viewed on Scribd and in the UKCME site.

Embed code for aluMATTER Flash movies

We have added a new feature that allows you to <embed> individual aluMATTER Flash movies in your own websites, blogs, VLEs and PLEs.

All you have to do is simply copy and paste a block of code from the relevant resource detail page on CORE-Materials. For an example of this, go to this page and click the <Embed> button near the bottom. Try copying the code and pasting it into your website or blog. It should appear at the correct size.

Here is an example of an embedded movie...


...and here is the embed code:

<object height="300" width="330"><param name="movie" value="http://core.materials.ac.uk/repository/alumatter/processing/forming/sheet-formingProcSpringB.swf"></param><param name="base" value="http://core.materials.ac.uk/repository/alumatter/processing/forming/">
</param><embed width="330" height="300" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://core.materials.ac.uk/repository/alumatter/processing/forming/sheet-formingProcSpringB.swf" base="http://core.materials.ac.uk/repository/alumatter/processing/forming/"></embed></object>

Embedding resources from third party sites is already a popular feature on YouTube (videos), Flickr (images) and Scribd (documents), but until now has not been possible for our interactive Flash content. Enjoy!