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Ford’s Top EV Engineer Advocates More Inclusive Charging Tech
Making electrified vehicles mainstream across all segments, while facing significant cost challenges, ever-tightening regulations, and an often fickle consumer, will continue...
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NASA Embraces CFD to Replace Cancelled Flight Tests
NASA has expanded its use of Exa's PowerFLOW software for the simulation of concepts to reduce aircraft noise within NASA's Environmentally Responsible Aviation (ERA) project.
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F-35 Gets Cold Treatment in Step Toward IOC Remedy
Since it first became an active cold-weather testing facility in 1947, the 96th Test Wing's McKinley Climatic Laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base, FL, there have been a wide variety of...
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Audi Lightens New Generation Q7
Audi’s technical development boss, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Hackenberg, describes the new-generation Q7 SUV as representing a statement of the company’s competence as he lists succinctly the salient points of its...
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Lower-Cost Lidar Is Key to Self-Driving Future
Advances in automotive technology over the past century can be marked by distinct innovations. The list includes production firsts for the electric self-starter (1914), automatic transmission...
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EOS and MTU Advance Quality Measures for Metal-Based Additive Manufacturing
EOS and MTU Aero Engines have partnered to develop quality-assurance measures for metal engine components using additive manufacturing (AM), signing a framework...
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Army Equips Stryker Unit With New Communications Technology
The Army's Stryker vehicle, designed to quickly move soldiers into a combat zone, is swift and mobile. Now its communications equipment will be, too.
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Smaller Lidars Could Let UAVs Conduct Underwater Scans
Bathymetric lidars – devices that employ powerful lasers to scan beneath the water's surface – are frequently used to map coastal waters. At nearly 600 pounds, the systems are large,...
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New Device Measures How Birds Take Flight
It's quite easy to look at a bird and deduce that it flies by flapping its wings, but understanding exactly how a bird generates lift has long eluded scientists. Now engineers at Stanford have developed...
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Cadillac CT6 to Use Advanced Mixed-Material and Manufacturing Approach
Cadillac's new CT6, set for release in the fourth quarter of 2015, will be built with various types of advanced and lightweight materials and manufactured using a...
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Jeep's B-Segment Renegade: U.S. Developed, Built in Italy
The 2015 Renegade is the first Jeep to be imported into North America, but the Italian-built B-segment SUV represents a domestic engineering and design execution. Yes, its platform,...
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In-Cylinder Gas Analysis
LaVision’s internal combustion optical sensor (ICOS) product family provides a series of techniques for the measurement of quantitative, in-cylinder, transient engine-relevant values such as air/fuel-ratio, temperature, or the exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) rate. Systems are applicable in gasoline or diesel experimental...
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Media Converter
Intrepid Control Systems offers a rugged, pocket-sized RAD-Moon media converter that interfaces conventional Ethernet with BroadR-Reach. Powered by USB, the device allows communication between a PC and an automotive Ethernet...
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Aftertreatment System
To achieve Tier and Euro emissions compliance with minimal impact on efficiency, system size, and maintenance, Convergent Science has developed an aftertreatment simulation approach for on- and off-road urea/selective...
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Heat-Resistant Steel Casting
Hitachi Metals offers Hercunite-S heat-resistant steel casting for exhaust systems to improve fuel economy and reduce CO2 emissions. With increasing demand for heat-resistant casting that withstands...
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Engine System Analysis
Software Cradle Co. Ltd. has announced that its SC/Tetra Version 12, scheduled for release in June 2015, will introduce several new features including the coupling of SC/Tetra CFD software with Gamma Technologies’...
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Taking on NVH Reduction Techniques
The internal-combustion engine and other types of vehicle propulsion systems produce various forms of vibrations that may be undesirably transmitted to the vehicle frame. These vibrations may be high or...
Articles Transportation
Getting a Grip on AWD Efficiency
All-wheel drive is becoming a must-have feature for drivers who face slippery roads and daunting grades in winter. The growing popularity of the technology is fueled by the worldwide boom in B- and...
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E Pluribus Unum
Inputs from radar, cameras, and other sensors that are already improving safety and convenience are being merged into holistic images that will pave the way for autonomous driving. When input from many sensors is combined,...
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Setting the Standard
Meggitt CTO Emeritus begins term at helm of SAE International, seeks to encourage cross-sector relations, elevate image of SAE as aerospace industry leader.
Articles Power
Rotary SI/CI Combustion Engines: A Thing of the Future?
Today’s small piston engines can be inexpensive, and have suitable reliability to serve a variety of applications including scooters, motorcycles, ATVs, boats, lawn and garden...
Articles Transportation
Aftertreatment Comes With Challenging Diagnosis
Regulations including U.S. EPA Tier 4 have altered design concepts, ramping up the importance of monitoring fuel usage and emissions. Engines and aftertreatment systems must remain in...
Articles Materials
Unlocking the Power of Ceramic Matrix Composites
Faster, lighter, stronger, hotter – words anyone working on military product development is all too used to hearing. In a world where advanced computer modeling and simulation packages are...
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Wireless Sensing — the Road to Future Digital Avionics
The performance of avionics systems is dictated by the timely availability and usage of critical health parameters. Various sensors acquire and communicate the desired parameters. In...
Articles Software
New RF Strategies for Software Radio
Software defined radio system engineers can now exploit new technology to perform digital signal processing much closer to the antenna than ever before. Various strategies include the latest wideband data...
Application Briefs Aerospace
Tracking WiFi Signals to Passively See Through Walls
University College London (UCL) researchers are investigating passive radar technologies that can see through walls using WiFi radio waves. The novel research required a real-time, passive...
Briefs Aerospace
Detecting Trace Levels of Explosives Using Vibrational Sum Frequency Spectroscopy
The threat of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to human life is grave, and countering this threat is a high priority for force protection during military...
Briefs Aerospace
Reduced Order Modeling for Rapid Simulation of Blast Events of a Military Ground Vehicle and its Occupants
Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) pose a significant threat to military ground vehicles and soldiers in the field. Full-system...
Briefs Software
Software Tool Enables High-Fidelity Simulation of Explosive Device Effects
High-fidelity simulation tools are used as an acceptable surrogate for real-world tests. These tools accelerate development and reduce cost, while informing weapons...
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