Introducing Engineering Reports : its mission and vision

Editorial: Introducing Registered Reports

The way we do science is rather stereotyped. We have hypotheses to test, and we plan the experiments, sometimes a long time ahead, to test these hypotheses. Writing a grant proposal is a typical example: we give a detailed plan of what we are going to do in the coming years. Of course, we never know how a project will evolve, and deviations from the original plan are commonplace, as milestones ...

The Concepts of Vision, Mission and Fusion in the Strategic Planning

Engineering reports

Recommendations Executive Summary This report evaluates the assumption that joints which display semirigid behaviour can be modelled as frictionless pinned joints in building design calculations. The idealisation is evaluated by comparing computer simulations incorporating this assumption with experimental test data for the actual structure. The results show that the idealisation is safe and is...

Introducing Journal of Medical Case Reports

A case report provides important and detailed information about an individual, which is often lost in larger studies. Moreover, case reports can serve as an early warning signal for the adverse effects of new medications, or the presentations of new and emerging diseases. Although a number of medical journals publish case reports, these articles are underrepresented in the literature, and there...

Solar sailing: mission applications and engineering challenges.

Solar sailing is emerging as a promising form of advanced spacecraft propulsion, which can enable exciting new space-science mission concepts. By exploiting the momentum transported by solar photons, solar sails can perform high-energy orbit-transfer manoeuvres without the need for reaction mass. Missions such as planetary-sample return, multiple small-body rendezvous and fast missions to the o...