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Stuck on Structural Adhesives
A funny thing happened on the way to the total-vehicle lightweighting that’s now a common engineering dictate for nearly every new vehicle: structural adhesives—which entered low-volume automotive use in...
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Extending the ICE Age: Hyundai Optimizing Engines and Fuels
As part of the cover story on the future of vehicle propulsion in the July/August 2019 edition of Automotive Engineering magazine, this article is one of four that examines the...
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Extending the ICE Age: GM’s Ken Morris Lives the Real Pace of the Powertrain Revolution
As part of the cover story on the future of vehicle propulsion in the July/August 2019 edition of Automotive Engineering magazine, this article is...
What We’re Driving RF & Microwave Electronics
2019 Volkswagen Jetta GLI
The sixth-generation 2019 Jetta GLI now joins the range of Volkswagen models leveraging the excellent MQB front-drive architecture and in a stroke re-establishes itself as a sparkling-good sport sedan that...
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The Ford GT
As part of its sponsorship of this year’s annual auto-palooza known as the Woodward Dream Cruise, Ford invited media to sample its Ford GT supercar along Detroit’s famous avenue. With its sold-out production run of 1,350...
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Renewable Propane, Ultra-Low NOx Engines Set Standards for Propane Autogas Innovations
The future of trucking is looking even greener. Not only are companies forced to contend with new government regulations to meet lower emissions and...
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Extending the ICE Age: Ford’s Dave Filipe Has Some Powerful Choices to Make
As part of the cover story on the future of vehicle propulsion in the July/August 2019 edition of Automotive Engineering magazine, this article is one of four...
What We’re Driving Propulsion
2019 Volvo S60 T6
As the sporting player in Volvo’s C-segment sedan lineup, this all-wheel drive, turbocharged-and-supercharged R-Design S60 faces benchmark competition in the BMW 3-Series, Audi A4 and Mercedes-Benz C-Class. In pure...
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Link Digital Suspension Uses Sensors, ECU to Keep Cabs Stable
Link Manufacturing is beefing up its usage of digital technologies with an upgraded Cabmate, unveiling a cab suspension system that smooths the ride for both drivers and those in...
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‘They’ Said It Couldn’t Happen: A Possible Retrofit for Automotive R-134a Refrigerant
When R-1234yf refrigerant was chosen as the low-global-warming replacement for the longtime industry staple R-134a, the consensus being the newcomer...
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Ford Revisits OHV Layout, Big Displacement for New Commercial-Truck V8
In a still-heated market for highly profitable heavy-duty pickups and commercial vehicles, Ford doesn’t intend to be outdone by General Motors’ and FiatChrysler’s...
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Peloton CEO Talks Level 4 ‘Automated Following’
Daimler Trucks abruptly hit the brakes on its platooning activities, announcing at CES 2019 in January that analysis of its years-long testing on U.S. roads showed no business case for...
Articles Materials
Preventing Ice Buildup on Electric Aircraft
Afaq Ahmed Abbasi of Northwestern Polytechnical University explains his innovative approach.
Articles Aerospace
Peridynamic Modeling: An Alternative Approach to Analyzing Material Failure
A critical technology challenge for structural material applications is to have a means for the reliable analysis of material damage and failure.
Articles Imaging
Critical Communications Break Out of the Analog Mold
Once firmly rooted in its analog origins, critical communications is now steadily evolving to provide enhanced situational awareness. The latest public safety and military communications...
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Microturbine Propulsion for UAVs
The continued use of reciprocating engines has limited the UAV market’s ability to reach its true growth potential.
Articles Aerospace
How Miniaturized Distributed Modular Architecture Advances Avionics Design
A centralized IMA approach offers several advantages.
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Pathfinder Radar ISR and SAR Systems: Tactical Eyes for the Warfighter
Sandia National Laboratories’ (Albuquerque, NM) Radar Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems enable a new product paradigm in radar capabilities and...
Application Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Mine Roller
Rostec State CorporationMoscow, Russia+7 (495) 287-25-25https://rostec.ru/en/ Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant, part of UralVagonZavod Group belonging to Rostec State Corporation, has developed a mine roller to be installed on...
Application Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Land Combat Missile
MBDA IncorporatedArlington, VA703-387-7139www.mbdainc.com In early 2019, the DGA (French Procurement Agency) and the French Army (STAT) organized a campaign to test the MMP land combat missile in extreme cold conditions....
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Tactical Communications System
Spectra GroupTysons, VA202-818-8429www.spectra-group.us Spectra Group (US), a specialist provider of secure voice, data and satellite communications systems, specifically optimized for use in remote and...
Application Briefs Aerospace
Tiltrotor Aircraft
Bell HelicopterFort Worth, TX817-280-2011www.bellflight.com During the thirty years since the V-22 Osprey first flew, the tiltrotor aircraft, built by Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company, and Boeing, has fundamentally...
Application Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Hydraulic Thermal Bypass Valve
ThermOmegaTechWarminster, PA877-379-8258www.thermomegatech-adg.com A system supplier to the U.S. Department of Defense recently approached ThermOmegaTech® to obtain a custom thermal bypass valve. Installed into a...
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AB Dynamics Supports Germany’s PEGASUS Project Test of Multiple Autonomous Vehicle Control
Test systems supplier AB Dynamics has announced it will support PEGASUS, Germany’s new testing procedure for automated vehicles (AV). PEGASUS...
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ZF’s Autonomous Systems Head Takes a Pragmatic View of the ‘Levels’ Playing Field
“We are constantly asking this question: Who is the customer likely to buy an SAE Level 4 autonomous vehicle in the consumer passenger market?”...
Articles Test & Measurement
Engineering the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette
Two days before the 50th anniversary of astronaut Neil Armstrong’s leap for mankind and 10 years after General Motors emerged from bankruptcy, the camouflage was finally ripped from the...
Articles Power
Cummins CTO Sees Increasing Power Source Diversification, Digital Innovation
Jennifer Rumsey has been a member of SAE International her entire career and has participated in the organization’s COMVEC event as an attendee and occasional...
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Casting Around for Lightweighting Solutions
“Get more [efficiency] from less [weight, time, cost],” is a mantra that will be chanted sotto voce by many an automotive designer and engineer facing the latest list of a new vehicle’s...
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New SMARTCenter Opens as North America’s Largest AV Test Facility
As notions advance regarding the evolving needs and requirements of automated-vehicle (AV) testing, there’s a concurrent focus on the capabilities available from the...
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