As the precursor to the 24, Spa is usually a race for tinkering rather than a major test of machinery.
One of the most popular excitation methods for modal testing of rotating machinery is known to be the uncorrelated isotropic excitation, which requires two independent random sources with equal power for generation of a pair of uncorrelated excitation signals.
By way of testing the machinery of consultation before the Synod was actually organized, Pope Paul put a number of questions to the episcopal conferences then gathered in Rome.
Historians may remember this postelection struggle as a great test of constitutional machinery, but in the moment, in the day-to-day thrust and parry, it is all exceedingly personal.
The testing of the new machinery, centrifuges known as IR-2s, was disclosed by European diplomats and American officials and was reported over the past two days in Europe.
"You can call it expensive, but you have to look at the eventual costs, not the initial price of a single test or one piece of machinery," Prasad said.
Before the official sea trials, dockside trials are held for the preliminary testing of main and auxiliary machinery.
Once it was clear that Sept. 11 was a story that justified the entire arsenal of information age machinery, it became a test of how that machinery might work -- now that it mattered in a way it hadn't in the days of O. J. and Monica.
Testing of the guns, torpedoes, and machinery was successful, but it was discovered that two hull plates had been damaged during the launch, requiring the battlecruiser to dock for repairs.
A key piece of machinery, the BOP is usually tested regularly, even daily.
