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On the 8th December 2004 Hi-Tech Limited and
P. A. Hilton Limited made a joint announcement that
the Educational Plan The growth of civilisation requires the
development of civil engineering. This demands the education
and training of large numbers of technicians and a smaller
core of engineers. To assist the process Hl-TECH have,
during their 40 years of design experience, produced a
logically progressive range of over 50 HI-PLAN2 structures
experiments which cover the whole subject range of
structural mechanics up to postgraduate level. Teaching in the Laboratory The Hl-PLAN 2 apparatus exploits the
visual impact to the full by giving the student fundamental
experiments to prove the theory and then moving on to models
of beams and bridges and roof trusses to illustrate the
application of the theories. The general principle is to use
a universal frame and stand or a bench mounted base on which
the different experiments can be assembled. The Syllabus The whole syllabus of Structural
Mechanics from the most elementary work on equilibrium to
advanced work that might be in a postgraduate course has
been planned within Five Levels of the total educational
spectrum. The start of the course is suitable for
technicians, while the experiments in Level 4 are used to
explain the performance and design of indeterminate
structures to higher technicians and engineering
undergraduates. Level 5 is devoted to Structural Dynamics,
(relevant to earthquakes). |
