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Advanced Multifunctional Materials for High Speed Combatant Hulls
Currently small boat combatant design focuses primarily on speed and maneuverability. It would be advantageous to expand these capabilities to include reduced radar...
Briefs Aerospace
Multifunctional Shear Pressed CNT Sheets for Strain Sensing and Composite Joint Toughening
The main goal of this work is to obtain a scientific understanding of the possibilities provided by, and the behavioral features of, a novel type high...
Articles Test & Measurement
Simulating Thermal Expansion in Composites with Expanded Metal Foil for Lightning Protection
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is comprised of more than fifty percent carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) due to the material’s light weight and...
Articles Defense
Designing VME Power Systems With Standard Modules
Military electronics continue to push the performance envelope in all directions. Each new system design faces the same challenges: the need for more processing power, tighter specs, and shorter...
Articles Aerospace
Optical Ice Sensors for UAVs
The perverse thing about ice on the tailplane of a general aviation aircraft is that the pilot sits and looks forward, but the tailplane is aft. You can’t see it from the cockpit.
Articles Aerospace
Rotorcraft Icing Computational Tool Development
The formation of ice over lifting surfaces can affect aerodynamic performance. In the case of helicopters, this loss in lift and the increase in sectional drag forces will have a dramatic effect...
Articles Aerospace
Curled RF MEMS Switches For On-Chip Design
Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) switches are active components in most electronic equipment. Radio frequency (RF) MEMS are used in wireless personal communication devices, satellite communication,...
Articles Defense
Design Software Supports BAE System’s Mixed-Signal Chip Design
BAE Systems is a global defense and aerospace company, delivering products and services for air, land, and naval forces, as well as electronics, information technology solutions,...
Application Briefs Defense
Upmast Radar Systems
Kelvin Hughes Enfield, UK +44 19 9280 5200 www.kelvinhughes.com Kelvin Hughes recently installed its new SharpEye™ upmast radar system on four new vessels commissioned by the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force. The Damen...
Application Briefs Defense
Virtual Environment-Based Training Tools
Charles River Analytics Cambridge, MA 617-491-3474www.cra.com Charles River Analytics Inc., a developer of intelligent systems solutions, has received a follow-on contract from the US Navy to develop...
Articles Power
A 24-hour Battle of Speed and Efficiency
World endurance racing at Le Mans is no longer only about who finishes first after a grueling 24 hours, but also about winning with the greatest energy efficiency. For 2016, the Federation...
Articles Power
Pushing the ICE Forward, Gradually
Free lunches don’t exist in the quest to improve vehicle efficiency and reduce emissions. No one knows this better than powertrain engineers whose work is a constant series of tradeoffs that must be...
Articles Automotive
Smile, You’re on Magna Camera!
Near the small Michigan town of Holly (pop. 6300) an hour north of Detroit, the Magna Electronics complex has quietly become a goliath within the automotive sensor industry.
Articles Materials
Multi-material Body Solutions: Possibilities and Manufacturing Challenges
In the automotive industry, mass reduction and lightweight design is a continuing trend that does not show signs of declining. When examing where to reduce weight in...
Technology Report Software
2017 Super Duty Brawn Forces Ford to Upgrade Its Dyno Sleds
What happens when the performance of your newly-developed vehicle exceeds the capabilities of the test equipment used to measure it? Ford Truck engineers faced that dilemma while...
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Embraer's First E190-E2 Jet Takes off Early
Embraer's E-Jets E2 program took an important step forward with the recent completion of the maiden flight of the E190-E2 from its facility in São José dos Campos. The flight occurred just three...
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The Future of Better Drones Is for the Birds
David Lentink, an Assistant Professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford, has been studying birds in flight with an eye toward applying the tricks birds use to navigate changing conditions in...
Global Vehicles RF & Microwave Electronics
SEAT to Spearhead VW's New Platform and 48V Technology
“SEAT has been through hell, in a way," asserted Luca de Meo, who became chairman of the Spanish automaker, part of Volkswagen Group, late last year. But after it survived a lengthy...
Technology Report RF & Microwave Electronics
Google's Krafcik Talks Self-Driving Vehicle Development
As automakers add advanced driver-assist systems to conventional passenger vehicles, they are developing one path to the fully autonomous vehicle—but not the only one. So, the...
News Automotive
Jaguar Puts a Brave Pace on Testing Its New Crossover
Rarely does an automaker choose the world's most dangerous roads to introduce a new vehicle to the media. So Jaguar's recent launch of the all-new 2017 F-Pace sports crossover in the...
News Automotive
Elon, Henry, and the Mastery of Manufacturing
“Do you want to make a bet on Musk’s latest pronouncement?” asked my friend the Tier 1 supplier engineer, whose company is part of Tesla’s supply chain.
News Electronics & Computers
Northrop Grumman Navigates on the Neuron UCAV Demonstrator
Northrop Grumman's subsidiary in Germany, Northrop Grumman LITEF, teamed with Saab Aerosystems to provide the AHRS (attitude and heading reference system) for the Neuron unmanned...
News Defense
NASA Takes a Respectable-Sized Step Toward Supersonic Flight
Research on supersonic flight has quietly been infiltrating the desks of a variety of engineering work stations, verified by NASA's recent contract award for the preliminary...
Q&A Automotive
Pride in Engineering the World’s Most Popular Electrified Vehicle
Kazuaki Shingo’s background is in mechanical engineering and internal combustion engines—making him a perfect candidate to develop the world’s most popular electrified...
INSIDER Aerospace
Royal Navy Uses Pilotless Aircraft to Navigate Through Ice
A tiny pilotless aircraft, built by the University of Southampton, launched from the Royal Navy’s ice patrol ship HMS Protector for the first time to assist with navigating...
INSIDER Aerospace
NASA and FAA Demonstrate Wireless Communication with Aircraft
For the first time ever, a team of engineers at NASA’s Glenn Research Center conveyed aviation data -- including route options and weather information -- to an airplane over a...
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