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Constructing Lightweight Bus Structures with Stainless Steel
The weight of a typical bus could be reduced by up to 35% – more than 1,000 kg (2,205 lbs.) – by using high-strength stainless steel to replace tubular bus-frame elements...
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Data Analysis Companies Collaborate to Slash EV Battery Production Time
A battery intelligence pioneer will work with a venerable semiconductor yield-improvement firm in a partnership that promises to drastically accelerate the...
Articles Power
Deep Breathing for EV Batteries
As batteries become more sophisticated, the need to protect them from the elements has never been greater. Battery pack engineers understand vehicle applications and by marrying them with proper venting...
Articles Energy
Balancing the ‘Dominos’ in EV Thermal Management
Electric vehicle thermal management requires OEMs and suppliers to control many variables that potentially create excessive heat. Designing thermal-management systems (TMS) to...
Articles Energy
Advances in Virtual Powertrain Development
Powertrain engineers have various tools at their disposal to develop new technologies — empirical modeling, component simulation, multi-system environments and physical testing chief among...
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Additive Manufacturing Utilizing a Novel In-Line Mixing System for Design of Functionally Graded Ceramic Composites
Exploring the development of a direct ink writing system with multimaterial and in-line mixing capabilities for printing inks composed of high solids-loaded ceramic particulate suspensions.
Briefs Materials
Hierarchical Diamond-Based Ceramic Composites
This research developed and utilized advanced processing, modeling, and micromechanical tools.
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Keeping Your Silicon Cool
Onboard electronics continue to evolve rapidly. Components are smaller. Systems are more complex. The sophisticated electronics components that make up modern vehicles require precision heat dissipation for...
Articles Manned Systems
Vibration Testing NASA’s X-57 Maxwell Electric Aircraft
In place of the usual gasoline-powered motors, the X-57 has two all-electric motors powered by traction batteries.
Articles AR/AI
Designing Transportable, High-Performance AI Systems for the Rugged Edge
System design requirements are well understood for high-performance artificial intelligence applications destined to reside in enterprise or cloud data centers....
Articles Propulsion
Electrified Propulsion for Aerospace: Where to Start?
In the eVTOL marketplace there is no common ground yet regarding the number of propulsion modules.
News AR/AI
Maintaining EV Chargers Yet Another Challenge
Industry experts have trumpeted ad nauseam the need to expand electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure for the past half-decade or more. Those calls continued at the recent Green Truck...
Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Electronic Prognostics – A Case Study Using Global Positioning System (GPS)
An electronic system containing high frequency RF components reduces failure rates.
Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Infrared Systems for Tactical Aviation: An Evolution in Military Affairs?
See why the military is trying to understand the chaotic evolutionary development of infrared (IR) systems
News Manned Systems
Addressing Electromagnetic Compatibility in the Context of Aircraft Electrification
In the current context of aircraft electrification, the aerospace industry needs to address increased design complexity and higher levels of integration,...
Briefs Aerospace
Cold Sprayed Coatings with Dual Nanoparticle Reinforcements for Wear and Corrosion Protection
The use of cold spray has made significant strides since different-sized particles were explored in the process.
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Industry Invited to Participate in AeroTech Aerospace and Defense Technical Program
SAE International is inviting global participation in its AeroTech® aerospace and defense technology conference and exhibition, which is for the first...
Articles Unmanned Systems
Ruggedization of Electronics for Deployed Military Environments
Commercial-grade electronics will simply not survive in the extremes of military environments.
News Test & Measurement
Data Drives Driverless Truck Launch
Transforming raw data into high-quality structured data is a critical path to properly fueling machine-learning (ML) models and deploying artificial-intelligence (AI) applications across autonomous...
Briefs Test & Measurement
The Purpose of Mixed-Effects Models in Test and Evaluation
While Defense Test and Evaluation (T&E) is different from agriculture, data attributes can be surprisingly similar.
Articles Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Thermal Management Techniques in Avionics Cooling
Innovation is carrying airborne technologies farther and higher than ever before, and avionic cooling practices have had to evolve to keep up.
Articles Materials
Advanced CT Inspection and Data Analysis
Learn about the ways to ensure that your composite designs are structurally sound.
News Semiconductors & ICs
Is GaN the Future for EV Chips?
Technology advances in electric vehicles (EV) are steadily shrinking the vehicle bill-of-materials cost while creating power efficiencies and new design solutions. The combination of more power-dense...
News Software
Turn Growing Complexity into Competitive Advantage Through Digitalization -- Focus of AeroTech Keynote Thursday
In this new year of 2021, there is much to look forward to, and yet we do so with guarded optimism.
News Energy
USCAR Broadens Its Research Footprint
The project teams working under the USCAR (United States Council for Automotive Research) umbrella help carve a knowledge pathway to accelerate technology development. “We typically have...
News Unmanned Systems
Radar Testing with an O-Scope
A new generation of compact radar sensors with long range and high resolution is under development for automated driver assistance systems (ADAS) and future fully autonomous vehicles. Operating in the...
News AR/AI
Toyota Tops 2020 OEM-Supplier Relations Study
Toyota ranks as the top performer among the six major U.S. and Japanese automakers in all scorecard categories of an annual study focused on the OEM-supplier working relationship. “Toyota...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Designing Battery Packs for Harsh Environment Mission-Critical Devices
Learn about design considerations for manufacturing a battery pack that operates in extreme temperatures, absorbs shock and vibration, and maintains a watertight seal.
Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Covariance and Uncertainty Realism in Space Surveillance and Tracking
Characterizing uncertainty in estimating the state of a resident space object is one of the fundamentals of many space surveillance tasks.
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Scan-Based and Project Design for Medical
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