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Composites Permeate Inside and Out
According to Lux Research, automotive use of carbon-fiber-reinforced plastics will swell to $6 billion by 2020, making the segment larger than the aerospace industry’s use of carbon fiber despite the...
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Pumping Up Hydraulic Capabilities
Hydraulic technologies are evolving rapidly as clever engineers figure out how to alter spools and valves. These mechanical changes pale in comparison to the advances that transpire as design teams...
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Improving Heavy-duty Engine Component Efficiencies
Cylinder deactivation (CDA) is an effective method to fine-tune engine displacement for maximum output and improve fuel economy by adjusting the number of active cylinders in combustion...
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Time to Get Personal
The race to let drivers personalize vehicles is gaining speed. A range of techniques and technologies are being deployed to let drivers do more to make vehicles as individualized as their consumer environment.
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Looking at Mobility People Feature in 2050
Cuneyt L. Oge was born in Turkey, spent time in the U.S. as a young adolescent, graduated high school in Europe, went to college in the U.S., learned to speak multiple languages, married a Greek, and...
Articles Test & Measurement
Measuring and Accounting for Suspension
The U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development, and Engineering Center (TARDEC) contracted Scientific Expert Analysis Limited (SEA) to build a vehicle suspension parameter testing machine that...
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Charging Up Electrified Powertrains
Battery-powered vehicles still represent a small niche in most vehicle markets, but concern over higher fuel prices and tighter emissions regulations continue to spark investments in electrified...
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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.
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Beyond the Beam: The Impact of Coaxial Cables on Phased Array Technology
Phased array radar technology has been gaining popularity since its initial introduction in the 1960s and is now being used in a variety of applications, from military and defense to civilian sectors and even space exploration. Read on to learn more about this cutting-edge technology.
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Rising Star Awards: Women in Engineering Aerospace Winner - Heather Cummings
Heather Cummings, a 27-year old senior flight controls and autonomy engineer at Sikorsky, is the winner of the Aerospace/Defense category for SAE Media Group’s inaugural Women in Engineering: Rising Star Awards program.
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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.
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How to Get Advanced Air Mobility into the Sky
Advanced air mobility is a new class of vertical takeoff and landing aircraft larger than most cars yet much smaller than traditional commercial aircraft. It is optimal for short-distance flights within cities and suburbs. Read on to learn more about it and its benefits.
Articles Power
How High-Reliability Capacitors Support Electrical Power in Military Vehicles
This article explores the rise of electrification in military applications, the enabling role of high-reliability power supplies and converters, and how capacitors are meeting the rigorous requirements of modern electrified land systems. Read on to learn more.
Articles Energy
A New Look at Ignition: Refining Our Understanding of Combustion Dynamics in Gun Chambers
Every time a soldier pulls the trigger on a 7.62 rifle or pulls the wire of a 155 Howitzer, a complex chain reaction ensues over the next millisecond that we refer to as the ignition event. Read on to gain a new look at ignition.
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Improving the Ageless ICE
Agriculture, industrial, mining, construction, freight transport and other major global economy sectors rely on vehicle power to thrive. “Internal combustion engines – those powered by gasoline, diesel,...
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Battery Progress, But What’s the Holdup in Adoption?
There’s no shortage of alternatives to lithium-ion EV batteries in development. From lithium-iron phosphate to sodium-ion to multiple solid-state chemistries, companies are racing to perfect these technologies and figure out how to manufacture them at scale. Read on to find out what the holdup is.
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Enhancing EV Battery Design with Advanced Testing
This article explores how advanced testing using end-to-end EV battery test systems can improve the quality and performance of EV battery designs. Read on to learn more.
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Delivering Higher Performance Batteries with Advanced Microscopy
As we collectively move away from fossil fuel power and work toward cleaner energy solutions, batteries are emerging as the preferred clean energy source. Read on to learn how they're advancing.
Articles Power
Examining EV Battery Thermal Management
In this article, we'll discuss how modeling and simulation can be used to facilitate the design of thermal management systems for EV batteries – from the cell scale up. Read on to learn more.
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Reducing the Weight of EV Batteries with Specialty Thermoplastics
Weight reduction in EV battery components is an important factor in optimizing battery energy density, which in turn is critical to extending vehicle range and boosting...
Articles Design
Looking for a Better Image
As design teams work to continually improve operator efficiency and comfort, many are focusing on the critical role displays play in human-machine interfaces. HMIs are the link to the functions that actually do...
Articles Transportation
New Engines 2016
Engine history bonus question for 100 points: What technology has been shared by the P-47 Thunderbolt fighter plane, Oldsmobile’s 1962 Jetfire V8, the Saab 99 Turbo, and the 2016 BMW M4 GTS?
Articles Connectivity
Baking in Protection
Consumer demands for connectivity open the vehicle up to the dark side of the Internet, making cybersecurity an important design requirement for vehicle providers. Automakers have several unique challenges as they...
Articles Automotive
Agility Training for Cars
As personal mobility moves toward the perhaps inevitable singularity of automatically piloted pods able to totally isolate passengers from any sensation of the surrounding world, today’s manually piloted cars are adding systems to aid with guidance and improve isolation from bumps in the road. Read on to learn more.
Articles Automotive
Cars Poised to Become ‘A Thing’
The Internet of Things (IoT) will be the next transformational aspect of connectivity, enabling machines to communicate with each other without human intervention. Autos are becoming a major player in...
Articles Design
Multi-material Structures Move mpg Upward
Multi-material vehicles are nothing new. Aluminum, plastics, and other “exotic” materials have long joined steel in the material mix of road-going cars and trucks, notably in powertrain and...
Articles Transportation
Evaluating Thermal Design of Construction Vehicles
Design and evaluation of construction equipment and vehicles constitute a very important but expensive and time-consuming part of the engineering process, due to a large number of...
Articles Software
Software’s Role Continues to Expand
Software has become a central factor in many new vehicle features and functions, forcing hydraulic system developers to employ a range of technologies to meet ongoing demands for more functionality....
Articles Propulsion
Cummins New X15 Engine Meets Upcoming Regs While Boosting Efficiency
Cummins provided extensive details of the design and engineering involved in developing the new HELM version of its X15 diesel engine. The company says its new engine...
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