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Vehicle Dynamics Software

Mechanical Simulation Corp.’s CarSim 9.0 vehicle dynamics software upgrade features major enhancements to the math models, visualization tools, database, and overall architecture. In version 9, CarSim makes it...

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Aerospace

Maximizing Thermal Cooling Efficiencies in High-Performance Processors

Despite the continuous development of new, higher performing processors, the thirst for increased embedded computing capability remains unquenched. In fact, it seems like...

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Photonics/Optics

Stand-Off Scanning and Pointing with Risley Prisms

With the ever increasing threat of improvised explosive devices, both in the military arena and the civilian realm, there is a growing demand for technologies with the ability to detect...

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Defense

Getting It Right with Composites

"Composite design and analysis is a highly integrated activity,” said Chris Gear, Chief Technology Officer & Senior Technical Fellow for GKN Aerospace. He noted that how composite material is placed,...

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Aerospace

Regional and Bizjets Refined and Redefined

There is definitely a degree of overlap in the regional and business jet sectors, both in terms of airframes and the engines that power them. At the high end of the market are aircraft such as the...

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Data Acquisition

Solutions for RF Power Amplifier Test

As wireless mobile devices grow in capability and complexity, the associated growth in power demand is driving new approaches to battery utilization and power efficiency. One of the single largest power...

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Aerospace

Air-Ground Communications System Aims to Make Flying Safer

Reliance on old-fashioned radio contact by pilots and vulnerable tracking systems is still high, but satellites are set to change sky safety, thanks to international collaboration....

Technology Update

Defense

Altair Optimizes 3D-Printed Structures for Complex, Lightweight Designs

Altair expects to better support the use of additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, by releasing new OptiStruct solver capabilities for topology optimization. The...

Technology Update

Defense

MTU Develops New Turbine Blade Material in Record Time

MTU Aero Engines announced in March that its internal experts and industry partners have jointly developed a new class of intermetallic, high-temperature materials for highly stressed...

Application Briefs

Defense

Flight Management System Software

Thales
Paris La Défense Cedex, France
+33 (0)1 57 77 86 26
www.thalesgroup.com

Thales was recently selected by Northrop Grumman Corporation to have its state-of-the-art Flight Management...

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Automotive

Cadillac Pursues Aluminum/steel Mix for New CT6 Luxury Sedan

Next fall, Cadillac’s new top-of-the-line model, the CT6 sedan, rolls out of General Motors’ big Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant and onto dealership sales floors...

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Defense

COTS Rugged Systems

North Atlantic Industries
Bohemia, NY
631-567-1100
www.naii.com

North Atlantic Industries (NAI) recently received an initial contract from L-3 Maritime Systems for Custom-on-Standard Architecture™ (COSA™) COTS rugged systems for the Ship to Shore Connector (SSC) Data Acquisition Unit. The advanced,...

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Defense

Embedded Computing Subsystems

GE Intelligent Platforms
Huntsville, AL
1-800-433-2682
www.geautomation.com

GE’s Intelligent Platforms division recently secured orders from General Dynamics UK valued at £64 million...

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Defense

Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) Shipsets

McMurdo Group
Lanham, MD
240-790-0600
www.mcmurdogroup.com

McMurdo Group, a company that specializes in end-to-end search and rescue (SAR) and maritime domain awareness (MDA)...

Products

Defense

Portable Fluid Chiller

A low temperature fluid chiller, suitable for labs and plants, has been introduced by Thermonics Corp. (Mansfield, MA). The portable chiller recirculates heat-transfer fluids at precise temperatures needed to support...

Products

Defense

FPGA Chip and Protocol

MEN Micro Inc. (Blue Bell, PA) has released the CS1, an FPGA chip with an integrated AFDX protocol that provides a flexible alternative for communication in airplanes. The customizable CS1 enables users to build...

Products

Defense

M-PHY® Multi-Lead Probe

The Teledyne LeCroy M-PHY Multi-lead Probe allows developers using an embedded MPHY bus in their PCB designs to tap into the signal traces directly and capture bus traffic for protocol analysis and debugging. The...

Products

Defense

VMEbus 4th Generation Intel® Core™ i7/i5 Processor Board

Concurrent Technologies (Colchester, UK) has announced VP B1x/msd, a 6U VME board based on a 4th generation Intel® Core™ i7/i5 processor. The headline variant of VP B1x/msd uses...

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Defense

Low-Profile AC-DC Power Supplies

Schaefer Inc. (Hopkinton, MA) recently introduced the new low-profile TERa Series of Advanced Thermal Technology AC-DC power supplies. The TERa family offers three output power classes of 700, 1200 and 2000...

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Defense

600W Programmable Power Supplies

TDK Corporation (Tokyo, Japan) recently added 600W high voltage models to TDK-Lambda’s Z+ series of programmable DC power supplies. This series is now available with output voltages of 0-10, 0-20, 0-36,...

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Automotive

Nissan's Maxima Has Flowing Sports Car Lines, Upgraded 3.5-L V6 and CVT

A flagship car typically isn't the top seller, but it does set a tone for a product line. Nissan's 2016 Maxima, introduced at the 2015 New York Auto Show, put a...

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Defense

Additive Manufacturing

The NanoSteel® Company (Providence, RI) has announced the expansion of its additive manufacturing (AM) material capabilities to support metal 3D printing of complex high-hardness parts and the ability to customize...

Products

Defense

RF Over IP Technology

RT Logic (Colorado Springs, CO), a subsidiary of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, has released SpectralNet, the only commercially available product that enables the lossless transport of packetized RF over IP...

Products

Defense

Radiation-Tolerant FPGAs

Microsemi Corporation (Aliso Viejo, CA) has announced availability of its RTG4™ high-speed signal processing radiation-tolerant FPGA family. The RTG4’s reprogrammable flash technology offers complete immunity to...

Global Vehicles

Manufacturing & Prototyping

Lexus Sharpens Best-Selling RX for 2016

The Lexus RX luxury crossover has been the make's best seller, accounting for 25-30% of sales, and the 2016 model introduced at the 2015 New York Auto Show displays a new styling treatment that...

Products

Defense

Chemical Agent Resistant Coating

Sherwin-Williams (Cleveland, OH) recently announced that MIL-DTL-64159 Type III Chemical Agent Resistant Coating (CARC) Aerosol is now available for touch ups or other small job applications on military...

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Power

New XF Moves to Jaguar's Aluminum Architecture

Jaguar's best-selling model, the XF, is moving from a steel body to the aluminum-intensive monocoque architecture used on the XE and XJ. It's one of the latest steps the luxury car maker has...

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Regulations/Standards

The Formula for Innovation: Customer Collaboration with Applications Engineering

The global mobile equipment market is always evolving and adapting to meet customers’ needs, driven by new government regulations, as well as market demands...

Executive Viewpoints

Propulsion

Increasing Productivity: Top Trend for the Off-Highway Industry

Today’s emphasis on improving fuel efficiency and reducing emissions is just the beginning. In the future, increasing productivity will be the most critical trend for the...

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Power

Noise Joins Exhaust Emissions on Industry Challenge List

Off-highway vehicles may not move at the same speed as trucks or other large road vehicles, but that in itself presents challenges that on-road vehicles do not face. As emissions...

Briefs

Aerospace

Fabricating Transparent and Stretchable Supercapacitors Based on Wrinkled Graphene Electrodes

Stretchable electronic devices, including solar cells, light-emitting diodes, batteries, and textile supercapacitors, have been developed to retain...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

Modular Exhaust Design and Manufacturing Techniques for Build-to-Order Muffler Systems

Managing the acoustic signature of military vehicles can play a critical role in the safety of soldiers. Low-frequency sounds propagate through the...

Briefs

Defense

Silicon Microsphere Fabrication

The efficiency and methodology of coupling light into microcavities has improved exponentially in the last decade. One such advancement is coupling light onto silicon microspheres. The material, size, and...

Briefs

Defense

Designing and Fabricating a Multiple-Decade Battery

There is a great need for energy sources that can power unattended sensors for more than a decade. Unattended sensors can be located in harsh and remote locations that are often dangerous...

News

Motion Control

Stability Control Boosts Motorcycle Safety

As happened in cars, electronic safety technology for motorcycles is tracing a course starting with anti-lock brakes, continuing through traction control, and arriving eventually at full electronic stability control.

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

Jaguar Turns Marketing Speak into Engineering Reality for XE

“We have a very clear definition of our brand’s DNA, and if you drove all our products consecutively, you would be able to experience that through every one,” Jaguar Land...

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Photonics/Optics

Compact UV Lasers Could ID Substances from a Distance

For soldiers in the field, the ability to identify an object or substance based on how it responds to light could mean the difference between life and death. They could, for example,...

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Defense

Army Equips Vehicles With Electronic Stability Control

Soldiers laud the ballistic protection Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles that protect them against underbody threats, but now a brand-new MRAP feature, the first of its...

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Defense

Sandia Labs Uses Davis Gun to Test B61-12 Bomb

Three years of design, planning, and preparation came down to a split second, a loud boom and an enormous splash in a successful impact test of hardware in the nose assembly of an unarmed,...

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Automotive

Audi Evolves the Miller Cycle in Its New 2.0-L Spark-Ignition Engine

Audi’s next generation A4 due later this year will be the first model to receive a new 2.0-L engine that takes gasoline spark-ignition technology a step further...

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Automotive

Nanotube Additive

Zyvex Technologies announces the Zyvex Nanotube Technology (ZNT) product family. Available online, ZNT is a polymer-modified carbon nanotube additive for a range of host matrices including epoxies, elastomers,...

Q&A

Power

New Technology for Exhausting Jobs

As the Chief Technologist for Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies (FECT) in North America, Andy Pontius leads a product development team of 35 technical specialists. They are the application link...

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Test & Measurement

Johnson Controls Invests in LTU Research Lab

The newly named Johnson Controls Vehicle Engineering Systems Laboratory recognizes the supplier’s investment in a Lawrence Technological University (LTU) lab that will serve as a vital link...

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Electronics & Computers

Electromechanical Joining System

Kistler offers a joining system comprising maXYmos numeric control (NC), the IndraDrive servo amplifier, and NC joining modules monitors and controls. Featuring an intuitive touch screen, the system...

Product Briefs

Electronics & Computers

Image Sensor

Melexis introduces the MLX75421 Blackbird third-generation automotive image sensor. The high dynamic range (HDR) sensor features on-chip functional safety (ASIL) support for applications including automatic emergency braking,...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

3D Printers

Old World Labs introduces two 3D printers in its MC Series, delivering precision and accuracy with improved resolution. The MC-1 and MC-2 are available through a service plan subscription, allowing users to upgrade the hardware...

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Automotive

2016 Camaro: GM Unleashes Its Lighter, Faster Mustang Competitor

During the early phase of 2016 Chevrolet Camaro development, Chief Engineer Al Oppenheiser one day found himself in a meeting with a group of GM Powertrain engineers he’d...

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Materials

Aluminum Frame Rails, New Alloy Castings from Alcoa Help Cut 2500 Lb from Tractor-Trailers

A custom tractor-trailer technology demonstrator built by Alcoa is outfitted with various current and “soon-to-be-available” aluminum...

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Materials

NASA Tests Aircraft Wing Coatings that Slough Bug Guts

Bug guts create drag, and drag increases fuel consumption. But aircraft of the future could be made more fuel-efficient with non-stick coatings NASA recently tested on Boeing’s...

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Energy

Fuel Cell Carts Deliver Power to Airplane Galleys

Airplane galleys consume a huge amount of power. Additional power units may soon come to the rescue: housed inside trolley carts in the galleys, these units deliver both supplemental power...

Technology Report

Internet of Things

SAE and IEEE Join Forces to Explore Potential IoT Standards

SAE International and IEEE are jointly exploring a standards framework related to the rapidly emerging Internet of Things (IoT)—the billions of interconnected “smart” devices...

Product Briefs

RF & Microwave Electronics

Power Connector System

Molex Inc. has introduced the Super Sabre Power Connector System for all high-current applications where flexible wire-to-wire and wire-to-board configurations are required. Delivering 34.0 A per blade in a 7.50-mm...

Technology Report

Materials

Growing Natural Tire Rubber in North America

Despite ongoing advances in polymer chemistry and biochemistry, natural rubber made from rubber trees continues to be crucial to the global tire industry. This is because synthetic rubber...

Product Briefs

Electronics & Computers

Current Sense Resistor

KOA Speer Electronics introduced the new SLN3 molded current sense resistor, featuring a 3-W power rating in 4528 size. The SLN3 is a molded resin resistor that provides excellent dimensional accuracy, mountability,...

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Electronics & Computers

Compact Tire-Pressure Monitoring

Freescale Semiconductor’s FXTH87 tire-pressure monitoring system family provides low-power consumption, extended battery life, and functional integration in a compact, 0.3-g (0.01-oz), 7 x 7 x 2.2-mm (0.28...