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Engineers refine ‘atom-smashei™c
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University News Service
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Texas A&M University engineers
are developing a plan using robots to
build 420 miles of magnets needed
for what would be the world’s largest
atom-smasher. Such a machine is
now being designed by teams of sci
entists associated with the Houston
Area Research Center.
Robots would build the magnet
composed of 448 million pieces of
0.060-inch steel welded together
into the core of a 140-mile tunnel,
said George “Bud” Peterson, princi
pal investigator on the project for
the Texas Engineering Experiment
Station at Texas A&M.
As HARC scientists refine their
magnet design, the engineers are
working to incorporate the changes
in their manufacturing process for
the superconducting super-collider
or SSC, said Peterson.
“That’s one big reason for using
robots,” explains Mark Anderson, a
researcher on the project. “They are
flexible because they are reprogram
mable. We are designing all die tool
ing and fixtures so that thev can in
corporate change. We've got to be
able to switch our design quickly.”
HARC — a consortium composed
of Texas A&M and the University of
Houston — is Competing with other
leading high-energ\ pin sics cenieis
to design the particle accelerator for
(lie Department of Energy. 1 he con
sortium proposes that the faciliis be
located in Texas.
The accelerator would break
apart atoms with four times the
power possible todav, allowing phys
icists to see the smallest part ides of
matter thought to exist.
Changes have come swiftlv and
often as the design process has un
folded at HARC, Anderson said, He
and six students, aided bv Peterson,
a faculty member in the Engineering
Technology Department and indus
trial engineering faculn member
Dr. Tep Sastri, make modifications
to their system as changes are an
nounced by the accelerator design
ers.
"HARC has been great to work
with," Anderson said, “because they
have been willing to accept certain
changes that aid in automation."
Beginning with a system that uti
lized 55 robots working round the
clock to produce the magnet in the
specified time, the engineers have
refined their system so that onlv
four robots would be needed to per
form the work.
in circumference, our
would cost half as much to
Texas A&M engineers hopt
nali/e their automation pn*
the coming months — sti|
drawings, specifications and
bl\ instruc tions that will alios
tries to see what would beitt
in the manufac turing of tin
nets. This informatibn tvii
firms to bid on the project,ht!
Dr. Peter Mclnlvre, a physics pro
fessor at Texas A&M who leads the
effort to bring the* accelerator to
1 exits, said the HARC proposal is
chamaticallv different from the con
cepts being proposed bv the other
groups.
’ We
stage I
are now
in the proem
a lot of equipment
need to construct anactualrd)
tem which will build a 23-fo
lion of the magnet,” Andersotj
ne
“Ours is a more industrialized ap
proach to the high tech require
ments of the project," he said. “Our
magnets would be built bv industrv
rather than in a national laboratory.
This cuts the cost by a hu ge factor.
"While ours would be twice as big
I he\ expect the robot to Ik 1
ered In January and thevj^
have muc h of the toolingdc 'nougn mont
and ordered.
“ This is a very exciting pn
Anderson said. "We hopeoiiri
will he so ontst.Hiding thatit ''
used In the bidder that getssd
to huild the- accelerator."
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Legislature convenes for 69th sessio
Unanimous vote puts Budget woes to make
Lewis in as speaker toughest session ever 1
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United Press International
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Telephone: (409) 775-2116
AUSTIN — The Texas Legis
lature, greeted by a sea of yellow
roses and galleries overflowing with
spectators, opened its 69th session
Tuesday with warnings of tight fi
nancial constraints and promises of
still more battles against court-or
dered prison reforms.
The first day of the 140-day ses
sion was marked by ceremony,
speeches, oaths of office and the
unanimous, unchallenged re-elec
tion of 14-year legislative veteran
Gib Lewis, D-Fort Worth, to a sec
ond term as speaker of the House.
Hundreds of people packed the
both houses
families crowded
onto the House and Senate floors
beside newly-polished desks
adorned with yellow roses.
New and re-elected members of
the House were sworn into office by
Secretary of State Myra McDaniel
while their Senate ccvunterparts re
cited oaths administered by Su
preme Court Chief Justice John Hill.
Sen. Ray Farabee, D-Wichita Falls,
was chosen to the ceremonial posi
tion of president pro-tem of the Sen
ate.
Following a hall dozen House
members’ speeches that praised him
for his hard work and fairness and
for pushing through last summer's
education reforms, Lewis drew loud
applause when he asked his 149
House colleagues to join him in a
pledge against new taxes.
“For the first time in recent his-
United Press International
AUSTIN — For veteran state Sen. John Integer, the 69thTt
Legislature could turn into a saga that more closely resembles aTes
western.
"It's going to be my 1 Ith session, and it's going to be the lougl
roughest, worst session I’ve ever been in,” Traeger said Tuesday
the Senate completed its first day of business.
Faced with a budget deficit of some SI.2 billion and the necessity
c utting state agency and university budgets almost across the board,ih
Legislature will have to raise taxes, the Seguin Democrat predicted.
“I just don’t believe we’re going to get out of this session withoutata
bill,” 1 raeger said. “We’ve never had a negative cash situation likeife
before.’’
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treas that al
ubbs said.
Hundreds of peopl
upstairs galleries of
while legislators’ fain:
tory, we are entering a session minus
the financial surplus we have en
joyed for so many years,” Lewis said,
referring to a $1.2 billion revenue
shortfall that represents the overrid
ing issue of the legislative session.
Lewis said the “easy course”
would be to raise taxes, but quickly
added: “We will do with what we
have or we will do without.”
I nteger predicted the state sales tax will be raised from 3 '/*cents* ■.
8 '/.> cents and that tuition will be raised for st. te colleges and universjtifi ! t ' ce F* 0
I heSenate reflected the stale’s budget predicament in one of it's fit
resolutions, voting to freeze its own expenditures and staff salary allod
lions to 1968 levels.
In the House, Speaker Gib Lewis reflected a decidedly different all
(tide from Traeger, urging lawmakers to join with him in a pld|
against a tax increase, saying, “We will do wit h what we have or we will
without.-’
I reager predicted that the budget crunch would force the Legit
lature to adopt money-making measures that it previously turned dom
inc luding paitmuiuel betfingon horse races.
ii. J Lector Uribe, D-Brownsville. said he would work to nass alot
• ►uy v bill thfli could raise ujvto $800 million, and he suggested legislwoi
find wa\ s to trim the budget ef fectively before raising taxes.
(»o\ Mai k White told a county commissioners and judges associate
that the state can make it by trimming budgets without raising taxes.
reamery.
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yde was st
^tchry Engii
• A blue 1
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Her drew the most fervent ap
plause when he reiterated his attack
on federal intervention in the state's,
troubled prison system, vowing to
light court-ordered reforms “to the
highest court in this land.”
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