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Smart-Mortar Could Help Soldiers Hit Targets
The Army hopes its new 120mm Guided Enhanced Fragmentation Mortar (GEFM) will improve soldiers' ability to put artillery on target. The GEFM is a high- accuracy, GPS-guided mortar concept currently...
INSIDER Photonics/Optics
Compact UV Lasers Could Spot Dangerous 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...
News Design
Freudenberg-NOK Develops Lightweight, Fireproof Materials for Engine Nacelles
Freudenberg-NOK Sealing Technologies is currently developing two new materials that reportedly will help aircraft manufacturers save weight and production costs...
Articles Transportation
Future ICEs: What Comes After 2025?
Vehicle engineers and planners have been breathing a bit easier lately, generally confident that the industry will meet the upcoming U.S. CAFE and Euro 6 vehicle CO2 regulations without excessive...
Articles Unmanned Systems
Plotting the Vehicle Autonomy Revolution
Larry Burns has spent much of his 40-year career peering far beyond the horizon in search of future-mobility solutions. As General Motors’ Vice President of Research & Development and...
Articles Software
It’s ‘Do-or-Die Time’ to Plan for Open Platforms
Prof. Ola Henfridsson has a curt warning for the European motor industry: “It must accept that cars have to become open platforms for digital technology.”
Articles Electronics & Computers
Automotive HMIs Aren’t Just for Driving Any More
Most autonomous driving discussions focus on the sensors that inform vehicle controls and the techniques those controls will use to make decisions and take action. But as autonomous...
Articles Software
To Serve and Protect
Automotive security concerns have rapidly evolved from physical equipment like door locks to cybersecurity concerns for connected vehicles. Developers are now deploying encryption, standards, and other techniques in...
News Electronics & Computers
Electro-Hydraulic Steering Unit
Concentric AB’s new electro-hydraulic steering (EHS) unit, designed primarily for servo steering applications in trucks, buses, and off-highway applications, offers system power savings through its variable...
News Transportation
Faster, Lighter: Lotus Reveals Its Quickest Road Car Yet
With an all-new lightweight composite bodyshell, supercharged 336-kW (450-hp) V6 engine, and an open cockpit without windshield or doors, Lotus’s stark new no-nonsense 3-Eleven is...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
JLR Reveals Some R&D Secrets
Watching the alpha and beta waves of one’s brain undulating across a screen while gripping a steering wheel, is one of the more bizarre experiences of automotive R&D. But that is what JLR (Jaguar Land...
News Electronics & Computers
Ford Expands ‘Split-View’ Camera Applications in SUVs, Trucks
Ford’s latest vehicle camera technology can help drivers see around corners. The optional “split-view” camera feature enables a view of traffic and obstacles that enter...
News Automotive
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...
Product Briefs Automotive
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...
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...
News Automotive
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...
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...
News Connectivity
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 Electronics & Computers
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...
INSIDER Mechanical & Fluid Systems
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 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 and...
Technology Report 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...
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 Automotive
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 Transportation
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 Defense
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...
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