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Building
and managing a theme park is clearly focused on visitor safety.
MoreVision are often called to assess the strength, fatigue strength and safety of new
attractions. |
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Disneyland
Hong Kong Rail Vehicle |
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The Disneyland railroad vehicle required extensive analysis to satisfy
the local regulatory bodies. The train comprises a loco, tender
vehicle and coaches. Each vehicle has its own bogie and wheelsets and
all items of equipment required assessment. Analysis covered many
combinations of vertical loads (tare to crush), longitudinal loads
(braking, vehicle recovery) and transverse loads (curving, wind and
slope). MoreVision worked closely with the vehicle manufacturers
transferring data via the internet. MoreVision further supported the
client through a design scrutiny process. |
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Disney
Vintage Vehicles |
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Static strength
and fatigue strength analysis was required for the Main Street Vintage Vehicles
in Disneyland's new Hong Kong Resort. These included a paddy wagon and a
double deck omnibus vehicle. |
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Mirabilandia's
Monorail System |
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 MoreVision
have done a great deal of railway bodyshell analysis but analysis
for the Theme Park industry is actually more like crane design
than railway design. MoreVision prepared calculations for TUV
approval using German DIN standards. MoreVision were also required to take
the calculations through the client scrutiny process. |
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Disneyland's
Catastrophe Canyon |
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The
picture opposite shows Disneyland's 'Catastrophe Canyon' ride. A
burning petroleum tanker about to falls onto a crowd of onlookers...
a job for Superman? No MoreVision!.
MoreVision undertook a loading analysis and a stress and fatigue
assessment of the wagon kingpin joint to ensure spectator safety.
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Disneyland's
Indiana Jones |
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 Remember
when Indiana Jones escaped a band of marauding natives by swimming
to his bi-plane floating of a river. Disney wanted to recreate
the feel of the film and bought a identical plane for use in
their 'Indiana Jones and the Eye of the Temple' attraction. These
planes have a take off speed of 30 miles per hour so the problem
given to MoreVision was to stop the plane from taking off in strong
winds. We
undertook some aerodynamics calculations and designed an anchorage
system for the plane. |
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Cart
for Disneyland's Stunt Show |
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A market
stall cart conceals a giant airbag to break the fall of a stunt man.
It was particularly difficult to design a light weight but rigid
frame. |
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Bogie
Assessment |
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 Strength
and fatigue assessment of bogie for a leisure transport train. |
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