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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 even...
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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...
Articles Aerospace
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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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, how...
Articles 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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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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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. The...
Product Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Additive-Manufacturing Alloys
NanoSteel expands its additive manufacturing (AM) material capabilities to support metal 3-D printing of complex high-hardness parts and to customize properties through gradient material design. By delivering...
Technology Update Manufacturing & Prototyping
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 System software,...
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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 nationwide...
Application Briefs Manned Systems
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, rugged intelligent I/O and...
Application Briefs Data Acquisition
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 (~$100 million) to provide a...
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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) solutions, was recently...
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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 probe...
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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 the...
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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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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, 0-60,...
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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 strong...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
Global Vehicles Transportation
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...
Articles Transportation
Balancing GDI Fuel Economy and Emissions
Increasing concerns about airborne soot, or particulate matter (PM), are translating into vehicle emissions regulations. One of the more stringent of these, the Euro 6c, is scheduled to phase-in...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Cameras Look to Go the Distance
Forward-looking cameras are quickly becoming standard features on cars, improving safety and convenience. Engineering teams are burning the midnight oil to improve distance capabilities and safety while...
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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 for...
News 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...
News Propulsion
Compact Diesel
Improved fuel consumption, low noise, and dependable performance are just some of the customer benefits delivered by Perkins' new 404F-E22TA engine, designed to meet U.S. EPA Tier 4 Final/EU Stage IIIB emissions standards. The...
News Propulsion
Aftertreatment Module
Cummins Emission Solutions has introduced the EcoFit Single Module, an ultra-high efficiency aftertreatment system. The EcoFit Single Module is designed to be up to 60% smaller and 40% lighter compared to the U.S. EPA...
Product Briefs Power
Gen-Drive Engines
John Deere Power Systems has introduced five new PowerTech 2.9-L generator-drive engines with power ratings from 31 to 55 kWm (41 to 74 hp). The new series offers customers a range of reliable, compact, emissions-compliant...
Product Briefs Propulsion
Dual-Clutch Transmission
Eaton's Procision transmission features seven speeds and uses an all-aluminum casing. It is electronically controlled and hydraulically activated. The system changes gear by switching between clutches to engage a...
Product Briefs Software
Multiphysics Modeling and Simulation Apps
COMSOL has released COMSOL Multiphysics software version 5.1, which the company claims is the first and only integrated simulation environment for building multiphysics models and for creating and...
News Electronics & Computers
EtherCAT Slave Controller
Microchip Technology Inc. announced the LAN9252 standalone EtherCAT slave controller with two 10/100 PHYs. The highly integrated device’s dual 10/100 Ethernet transceivers support both fiber and copper, along with...
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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...
Product Briefs Power
Specialty-Material Seal
Zurcon Glyd Ring D from Trelleborg Sealing Solutions offers a combination of improved sealing performance and service life, through optimized contact pressure and minimized heat generated from friction. To achieve this,...
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Molded Screen Insert Assemblies
Molded screen insert assemblies from Minnesota Rubber and Plastics are custom-designed for off-highway applications to filter out fluid contaminants and reduce product failure. Filter screen assemblies can improve the life of transmission and hydraulic systems by catching and easily removing small fluid contaminants...
Briefs Defense
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...
Briefs Defense
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 Aerospace
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 shape...
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
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 for...
News Electronics & Computers
Gaze-Directed Headlights Could Be on Horizon
Getting behind the wheel of a car is the riskiest thing that most people do every day, safety statistics say. And highway hazards only get worse at nighttime when about a half of fatal road...
News Transportation
Alternative Drive System for Wacker Neuson’s Smallest Excavator
At this year’s Intermat, Dieter Freisler, Regional President, Wacker Neuson, emphasized that the company plans in the future to “always have double digit growth,” and...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Connectivity Forces Business Model Changes
As connectivity and eventually autonomous driving become more common, the auto industry may evolve to focus more on car sharing and gaining revenue from connected services. That will require...
News Electronics & Computers
John Deere's MDT Allows Users to Make Data-Driven Decisions
John Deere has added a new tool within MyJohnDeere to make data transfer in the field easier. Mobile Data Transfer (MDT) allows customers to wirelessly transfer agronomic data to...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Haptic Feedback Is Key to Continental’s New Anti-Distraction Touch Screen
Can haptic feedback help reduce the driver distraction that is associated with operating in-vehicle touch screens? Continental Automotive engineers believe it can....
News Automotive
Kohler Extends Its Hand in Off-Highway Diesels
According to Kohler Engines, its new KDI 3404 model completes its platform of KDI diesel engines, which now range across three models from 30 to 100 kW (40 to 134 hp). The 3404 reaches 100 kW...
News Aerospace
Hino Tweaks Materials to Improve Wear Resistance of Synchromesh Gears, Sleeves by 45%
Performance improvements in commercial vehicles (CVs) that serve to reduce driver fatigue as well as increase comfort and operability are important in the...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Sound the Alarm
Lane keeping and adaptive cruise control combine to let humans relax on highways and in traffic jams, but people are still needed to maintain safety when situations stray from normalcy. Human-machine interfaces (HMIs) are...
News Automotive
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.
News 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...
INSIDER 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,...
INSIDER 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 kind...
INSIDER 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, mock...
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Propulsion Performance Model for Efficient Supersonic Aircraft
For the design process of the class of aircraft known as an efficient supersonic air vehicle (ESAV), particular attention must be paid to the propulsion system design as a whole...
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Controlling Engines with Virtual Sensors
The most efficient engines today, gasoline or diesel, are complex machines, with variable valve timing and lift, direct injection, turbocharging, and various flavors of exhaust gas recirculation...
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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 towards...
Product Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
High-Temp Dual Valve Controller
A new dual input, dual output valve controller from Axiomatic is operational up to 125°C (257°F) and suitable for installation under the hood of mobile equipment, including agricultural and heavy-duty...
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Flight Propulsion Goes Electric
Somehow, the sight of an airplane wing perching incongruously atop a big-rig truck tractor that’s rumbling across a dry lake bed at dawn might not seem particularly significant to the future of aviation....
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Volvo Penta Debuts Two New Off-Highway Engines
Volvo Penta offered up at Intermat the latest additions to its engine lineup: new 5- and 8-L off-highway diesel engines.
News 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, thermoplastics,...
Q&A Green Design & Manufacturing
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 for...
News 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 to...
News Transportation
Cat Designs Its 336F L XE Hybrid Excavator with Building-Block Technologies
Caterpillar says its 336F L XE Hybrid delivers an estimated fuel savings of up to 20% compared with its standard 336 counterpart with no compromise in performance...
News 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 integrates...
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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Sierra Nevada Breathes Life into D328, Determined to Make It Fly Again, and Evolve
Some 10 years since being out of production (some might say even nearly 15 years if one considers the demise of the plane’s originator), the Dornier 328,...
Product Briefs Automotive
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 as...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Accenture Demos Wearable Technology for Improving Manufacturing Processes
There was plenty of chatter at Paris Air Show about the need to increase efficiencies throughout the life of an aircraft, from its design and build all the way to it...
News Transportation
Airbus Helicopters Looks to the Future in Heavy-Lift Rotorcraft with the X6 Concept
Airbus Helicopter's announcement at the Paris Air Show about the beginning of the concept phase for a new helicopter, currently called the X6, didn't quite...
News 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...
News Defense
Dassault Systèmes on Everyone’s Side with 3D Visualization for Cabin Design
Dassault Systèmes announced just prior to Paris Air Show the launch of “Passenger Experience,” what it describes as a new aerospace and defense industry...
News Transportation
John Deere Loads Updates into E-Series Articulated Dump Trucks
All three models of John Deere's new E-Series articulated dump trucks (ADT) were designed and built in Dubuque and Davenport, IA. John Deere’s new Tier 4 Final E-Series (370E,...
News Automotive
Hyundai Launches All-New Crawler Excavator
Hyundai's new HX520 L is powered by a 331-kW (445-hp) Scania D13 engine, which is compliant with the Stage IV emissions standards. Hyundai has chosen a combined EGR and SCR technology solution that it says results in a reduction of fuel consumption of 3 to 6% depending on work cycles.
News Automotive
New SAE Book Examines Effects of Inflight Atmospheric Icing
SAE International has announced publication of the new book, Ice Accretion and Icing Technology by Robert J. Flemming. With proposed changes in the regulations for operation in icing conditions, universities and industry have been working hard to respond to the challenge. This is...
News Automotive
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 solutions...
INSIDER Aerospace
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...
INSIDER Aerospace
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 and...
Technology Report RF & Microwave Electronics
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...
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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 pitch...
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 often...
Product Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
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, and...
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Mitsubishi Puts NVH in 2016 Outlander's Crosshairs
Two years after the third-generation Mitsubishi Outlander arrived in the U.S. market, the crossover utility vehicle was revised for the 2016 MY with new signature front-end styling and...
Product Briefs 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 x...
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Mounting Structure Stiffness Critical for Isolation Performance on Off-Highway Machines
Off-highway machine mounting systems, especially the cab mounting system, significantly affect the operator comfort in the cab by providing enough...
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