The book presents a non-destructive vibration analysis method for calculating theinternal tension force of the tie rods tested.This method was formalized in 2003, and after 2 years of investigation waspatented, our patent which expires in 2025.The aim of this book is therefore to present this method, based on numerousconcrete examples.The theory and principles of instrumentation are explained. …
y first trip to Amsterdam was for a couple of days in the autumn of 2003. A second-year student at the University of Georgia, I was studying abroad at Oxford, just a few hours by air from Amsterdam. Years before, I had learned how to smoke marijuana and enjoy its effects, probably too much so.1 For stoners like my former self, visiting Amsterdam’s coffeeshops is a recreational pi…
Major achievements often hinge on the chance convergence of unique circumstances, as is splendidly illustrated by the dramatic growth, after humble beginnings in France, of the leading independent drug company Servier. For this industrial saga to happen and develop the way it has, the intuition, flair, and daring of a young doctor, Jacques Servier, had to coincide with the intellectual and indu…