Masonry Magazine February 1967 Page. 27
IH Testing and Development Program
As a part of its intensified efforts toward the design and manufacture of the safest possible farm and industrial equipment, International Harvester Company has been engaged in an accelerated program of testing and developing protective frames (anti-roll bars) for farm and industrial tractors.
At its Farm Equipment Research and Engineering Center in Hinsdale, Illinois, remote-controlled, current model tractors are driven at high speed along a 42-dgree bank and deliberately rolled while electronic devices record the location and force of impact on the frame.
IH's testing project employs sophisticated telemetry systems to measure the effects of the tractors' side rolls and back flips. Strain gages are cemented on to the protective frame at various locations and connected to a radio transmitter. Sound is transmitted through radio telemetry and on impact of the frame with the ground, the tone change occurring is read by a receiver and recorded on tape. Back in the lab, the tape is played into an analyzer which translates the tone into forces exerted on the frame. The test also checks on the design and mounting of the frame itself. It is highly unlikely that a customer's tractor will be subjected to this severe a test, but the results are contributing greatly to the body of knowledge needed by the industry to design and construct a frame which will provide maximum operator security under roll-over conditions. The information developed by IH will be shared with other farm and industrial tractor manufacturers through the Farm and Industrial Institute (FIEI) in its efforts to establish industry standards.
AED Elects R. G. Arnold President
Robert G. Arnold, vice president and general manager of Arnold Machinery Company, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah, was elected president of Associated Equipment Distributors during the Association's 48th International Convention, January 15-19, at Miami Beach, Florida.
As President of AED, Arnold will lead the trade association serving over 1,300 distributors and manufacturers of construction equipment in the United States and Canada. Member firms of AED represented an estimated total of $3.5 billion in sales in 1966.
Arnold is a past president of Associated Equipment Distributors of Utah, and has just completed a one-year term as senior vice president of AED. From 1965 through 1966 he served AED for two terms as a vice president and member of AED's Executive Committee.
AIA Honors Albuquerque and San Diego
San Diego, Calif., and Albuquerque, N.M., have joined the list of cities awarded a "Citation for Excellence in Community Architecture" by The American Institute of Architects.
The Institute's commendation for the Mission Bay Park project in San Diego was presented at the annual conference of the AIA's California Region being held in Monterey. San Francisco architect Cabell Gwathmey, director of the California Region AIA, made the presentation to San Diego Mayor Frank E. Curran on behalf of the Institute.
The award to Albuquerque was made October 14 when the Western Mountain Region held its annual conference in Santa Fe. Regional Director James M. Hunter FAIA of Boulder, Colo., presented the citation to City Commission Chairman Ralph Trigg.