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Making the Rounds in Aerospace: Tooling and Techniques for Discs, Blisks and Rings
Aerospace engine components like discs, blisks and rings are engineered to perform in extreme operating environments. They need to withstand intense heat and stress and be as lightweight as possible to meet exacting specifications. Read on to learn more about these components.
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Cutting-Edge Drone Killer Radio Wave Weapon Developing at Pace
Delivered by Team Hersa, the Radio Frequency Directed Energy Weapon can detect, track and engage a range of threats across land, air and sea. The system uses radio waves to disrupt or damage critical electronic components inside enemy platforms, such as drones, causing them to stop in their tracks or fall out of the sky. Read on to learn more.
Application Briefs Defense
Developing the UK’s First Hypersonic Missile
Ninety total organizations – large and small – from across industry and academia have secured a place on a £1 billion transformational Hypersonic Technologies & Capability Development Framework (HTCDF) agreement set up to rapidly develop advanced hypersonic missile capabilities for the U.K. Read on to learn more.
Briefs Aerospace
NRL Scientists Deliver Quantum Algorithm to Develop New Materials and Chemistry
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) scientists published the Cascaded Variational Quantum Eigensolver (CVQE) algorithm in a recent Physical Review Research article, which is expected to become a powerful tool to investigate the physical properties in electronic systems.
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
We've Been Here Before
For a couple of decades, virtually every global original equipment manufacturer spent significant capital and attention raising their sales/production profile in China. It became the world’s largest light vehicle...
Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
New Realistic Computer Model will Help Robots Collect Moon Dust
Working with their industry partner, Thales Alenia Space in the U.K., who has specific interest in creating working robotic systems for space applications, the team investigated a virtual version of regolith, another name for Moon dust.
Articles Communications
Assure 5G NTN Performance Before Launch
Simulation and emulation support NTN exploration and testing, verifying current performance while supporting next-generation evolutions.
Briefs Test & Measurement
Methodologies and Equipment for Measuring High Temperature Tensile Properties of Subscale Specimen Geometries for Additively Manufactured Metallic Materials (Continued)
Despite the existence of standards, the issue persists where, in general, equipment is unavailable to measure maximum bending strains at elevated test temperatures.
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
3D Scanning Provides Key Weapon for Aerospace and Defense Manufacturing
While AI, AR, and IIoT are increasing production efficiency and time to market, 3D scanning still has not been exploited by aerospace and defense manufacturers for its full potential to do the same.
News Software
Reliability Is Key to Capturing EVSE Market Share
Pick a percentage: 10%, 20%, 30%. The number of public EV charging stations that are out of service at any given time typically is a double-digit percentage, according to surveys. For a new...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
SAE International and Sustainable Mobility Solutions Recognized by White House
SAE International and its Sustainable Mobility Solutions (SMS) are making big moves, and the nation’s taking notice.
Articles Energy
Exploring High-Performance Applications for Distributed Transport Property Thermoelectrics
This new, patented distributed transport property technology describes functionally graded materials with spatially varied transport properties.
News Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A Darker Side of the Chip-Shortage Story
The effects of the global semiconductor shortage on new-vehicle availability, and industry profits, are well known. But an even more significant effect of the “chip” shortage has been going on...
News Motion Control
Hydraulic Fluids Evolve to Meet Critical Equipment-Design Trends
Driven by a number of factors, hydraulic equipment such as excavators, lifts, presses, bulldozers, cranes, injection molding equipment and more are rapidly evolving to meet...
News Power
BrightDrop Goes Grocery Shopping
BrightDrop, the business unit of General Motors developing and deploying electrified vehicles and tools targeting so-called “last-mile” commercial services, announced it has teamed with grocery giant...
Original Equipment Mechanical & Fluid Systems
HEVI Launches Lineup of Electric Off-Highway Equipment
Greenland Technologies Holding Corporation has announced the launch of HEVI Equipment, a new brand of industrial machinery. The HEVI Equipment moniker is a rebranding of Greenland’s...
Articles Power
Electrified Propulsion for Aerospace: Where to Start?
In the eVTOL marketplace there is no common ground yet regarding the number of propulsion modules.
Briefs Photonics/Optics
An Ultrafast Testbed for Comprehensive Characterization of Photonics, Electronic, and Optoelectronic Properties of Integrated Nanophotonic Structures
High-speed testing technology will enable advances such as new digital signal processing and computing platforms in the optical domain.
Original Equipment AR/AI
Automated, Electric Monarch Tractor Ready for 2021 Deliveries
“If you want to fundamentally improve your economics,” said Monarch Tractor co-founder and CTO Zachary Omohundro to farmers and growers everywhere, “you go electric.”...
Articles Regulations/Standards
Allison Builds a Testing Powerhouse
Reducing product development time is among the industry’s top priorities, particularly as vehicle makers transition into an electrified future. Waiting on the environment – climate, weather, terrain...
What We’re Driving Manned Systems
When a Van Beats a Pickup
As a utilitarian tool, the 2021 Great American Pickup truck has some fundamental flaws. Its open bed jeopardizes any cargo that’s valuable (exposing your payload to the world) or not waterproof. Worse, however,...
Articles Power
How Solid-State Technology Impacts A&D Equipment Testing
Learn how to provide accurate power sources with adjustable voltages and frequencies during the test cycle.
News Connectivity
Ford Expands EV Lineup with E-Transit Cargo Van
Ford revealed on November 12 its next fully electric vehicle (EV), the 2022 E-Transit cargo van, with the automaker’s new president and CEO Jim Farley stating, “The transition of fleet...
News Regulations/Standards
SAE, AEM Collaborate on Underground-Equipment Standard
SAE International recently published the first standard of its kind for the vacuum excavation equipment industry – J3107, Vacuum Excavation and Sewer Cleaning Equipment - Safety...
Briefs Data Acquisition
Preliminary Development of an Integrated Mobility, Lethality, and Survivability Soldier Performance Testing Platform
Develop a methodology that incorporates objective measures of performance and is sensitive to changes in soldier-system equipment.
News Manned Systems
Mecalac Designs Unique-Pivoting Swing Loader
Mecalac markets itself as an urban-equipment manufacturer, and the company’s focus on designing machines for constricted-space jobsites so prevalent in cities is manifested in the AS1600 swing...
News Manned Systems
SAE Live: TuSimple and Penske Executives to Detail the Automated Freight Network Partnership
With pressures from the COVID-19 situation pressuring U.S. business and economic structures, development and deployment of high-level vehicle...
Original Equipment Motion Control
ConExpo 2020: Liebherr Equips Latest Crawler Excavator with Leica 3D Integrated Machine Control
Liebherr recently launched R26 crawler excavator is now equipped with a Leica-supplied Geosystem machine-control system. The Leica-equipped...
Editorial Manned Systems
ConExpo Excels amid COVID-19
Las Vegas seemed to be in a bubble from March 10-13, the week of ConExpo-Con/Agg & IFPE 2020. Tens of thousands of attendees crowded the halls inside the Las Vegas Convention Center and outside on the new...
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Cooling a New Generation of Aerospace and Defense Embedded...
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Battery Abuse Testing: Pushing to Failure
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Advantages of Smart Power Distribution Unit Design for Automotive &...
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