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Ultrafine Fibers Could Revolutionize Body Armor
Researchers at MIT have developed a process, called gel electrospinning, that can produce ultrafine fibers - whose diameter is measured in nanometers, or billionths of a meter - that are...
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Printing on Patrol
What if our military could dramatically reduce the amount of materials and equipment held on the front lines by printing only what they need? Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National...
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Army Trains Robots to "Learn" From Humans
Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and The University of Texas at Austin have developed new techniques for robots or computer programs to learn how to perform tasks by interacting with a...
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Faster, Lighter, Stronger: Aerospace Composites Join Together Advanced Materials
Boeing and Airbus forecast a worldwide demand for up to 40,000 new aircraft over the next two decades. With a 10-year production backlog and new aircraft...
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Mercedes-Benz Bills 3rd-Gen Sprinter as First Holistic Mobility Solution
Mercedes-Benz has taken the wraps off its third-generation Sprinter light commercial vehicle, offering increased versatility, reduced operating costs and new levels of...
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Sharks on a Plane? Skin Scales Lift Aircraft Design
To improve a flying vehicle, sometimes you have to turn to a reliable model that has been operating for hundreds of millions of years.
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Military, Suppliers Focus on Long-Term Technical Advances, Compatibility
Equipment developers are moving quickly to ensure that military users will have long-term access to boards and modules that provide higher performance, easy...
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NASA Nears Testing on Fission Reactor for Missions to Moon, Mars
The notion that NASA is currently developing a nuclear power system might not seem that Earth shattering. The agency has flown a number of missions powered by radioisotope...
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Rolls-Royce Sees a Future in Connected Engines
Richard Goodhead, Senior Vice President Marketing, Civil Aerospace at Rolls-Royce, sees the changes that will result from the company’s IntelligentEngine, launched as a concept in early...
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Designing Composite Engine Cowling for Improved Heat Resistance
When a helicopter is hovering, there is little airflow passing through the engine cowling and hot stagnant air will gather in the engine compartment. During extended hover...
INSIDER Aerospace
Nanotube Fibers Made by Hand to Cut Production Time
A method developed at Rice University allows researchers to make short lengths of strong, conductive fibers from small samples of bulk nanotubes in about an hour. It can take grams of material and weeks of effort to optimize the process of spinning continuous fibers, but the new method cuts that...
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Drones Learn Autonomous Flying by Imitating Cars and Bikes
The algorithm DroNet allows drones to fly completely by themselves through the streets of a city and in indoor environments. It produces two outputs for each single input image: a...
INSIDER Aerospace
NASA Alloy Could Fold Wings in Flight
NASA has successfully applied a new technology in flight that allows aircraft to fold their wings to different angles while in the air. Part of the Spanwise Adaptive Wing (SAW) project, the technology...
Technology Report Electronics & Computers
Manufacturing Systems Get Smart, Self Heal
Competition in the aerospace industry is fierce at all levels, and that includes the factory floor. Achieving production numbers is imperative to meeting both cost and customer expectations, and...
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AYE, ROBOT!
Since 1961, General Motors has used robots for work described by the three Ds — difficult, dangerous or dirty. About a decade ago, GM started looking at ways to move robots from today’s highly-restricted work cells into an...
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More Adhesives Help Stiffen Honda's 2018 Odyssey Structure
Structural adhesives are gaining in usage popularity as engineers employ the bonding agent with lightweight materials to help achieve a continuous bond for improved vehicle rigidity...
Articles Transportation
Automated Data Translation in THE HOT SEAT
Seating development and manufacturing are full of variables that need to be streamlined and made manageable to accommodate a complex array of customers, partners, product variants and end...
Technology Report Automotive
Repaired Carbon-Fiber Frame Can Be Stronger Than Original Structure
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) and researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) have demonstrated a new “reversible” adhesive for multi-material joining that...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Digitalization Extends Simulation into Factories
The role of digital data is expanding rapidly, extending to the equipment on the factory floor after coming into dominance in the design of everything from components to end vehicles....
Articles Energy
LEAF Turns to the 2020s
The 2018 Leaf, now packing 150-mi (241-km) operating range, and with +200-mi (321-km) battery capability coming for 2019, will lead Nissan’s electric march into the new decade. Read on to learn more.
Articles Transportation
A Rebel’s Guide to Chassis Engineering
Herb Adams didn’t invent modern American car handling, though he was present at the creation. Read on to learn more about his trials and tribulations.
Articles Transportation
New SAE President Focused on Big Data
Well-known in the mobility industry for his expertise in mechatronics and propulsion-system engineering, Mircea Gradu, Ph.D. begins his one-year term as SAE International President amid technology shifts that are rocking the automotive status quo.
Articles Energy
Electrification Not a One-Size-Fits-All Solution
Some electrification efforts in the off-highway in dustry have been quite successful, yet others still need either time to catch on or may just flat-out not be suited for electrification. It is not an across-the-board solution, nor does it necessarily need to be one. Read on to learn more.
Articles Power
SuperTruck REDUX
In fall of 2016, truck makers that participated in the first five-year phase of the SuperTruck program made like the Blues Brothers and “put the band back together” for phase two of the U.S. Department of Energy-sponsored initiative. Read on to learn more.
Product Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Cable-To-Cable Connector Series
The CTC series from ITT Cannon (Irvine, CA) is a simple-to-install, low-maintenance cable-to-cable interconnect solution. It is suitable for a wide variety of harsh environment vehicle applications where...
Product Briefs Electronics & Computers
Electric Linear Actuator
The LA33 electric linear actuator from LINAK (Louisville, KY) is a mid-range device that combines compact design and high power in one solution fit for use in the most extreme environments. Offering a 12- or 24-V dc...
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