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Can Ads Help in Vehicle-To-Vehicle Rollout?
During the long development of vehicle-to-vehicle/-infrastructure communications, collectively referred to as V2X, design teams looked at many ways to cover costs by using the signals for other...
Technology Report Automotive
High-Integrity, Low-Cost Aluminum Components Produced by Semi-Solid Casting
Semi-solid casting is a near-net shape casting process that is capable of producing extremely high-quality castings. It differs from all other casting processes as...
Technology Report Manufacturing & Prototyping
Hyundai Enhances NVH with 2016 Tucson’s Re-Engineered Suspension—including ‘World First’ Dual-Member Damper Housing
No area of the third-generation Tucson crossover utility vehicle was left untouched by Hyundai engineers, but...
News Test & Measurement
Blizzard Conditions Test FCA's 4WD and AWD Vehicles
With more 4x4 and all-wheel-drive vehicles in its product portfolio than at any other time, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has invested $2.5 million to upgrade a climatic test cell with a 4x4...
Technology Update Materials
High-Strength Aluminum Powder Developed for Additive Manufacturing in Aerospace, Automotive
Metal laser melting has made a successful leap from rapid prototyping to an approved manufacturing technology, and the method is increasingly becoming...
Briefs Aerospace
Testing Multijunction Solar Cell Efficiency
The photovoltaic community is closer than ever to achieving ultra-high multijunction solar cell efficiencies (>50%). Subcells from III–V compound semiconductors are approaching ideal...
Briefs Test & Measurement
Thermal Response of Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMWPE) Materials in a Flash Flame Test
Testing was performed on Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMWPE) fabric and composite material in a flash flame environment when...
Briefs Test & Measurement
Thermal Conductivity Measurement Setup for Low-Temperature Characterization of Laser Materials
Operating lasers at cryogenic temperatures gained maturity only in the mid-90s due mostly to the progress in transparent, laser-grade ceramics and...
Briefs Aerospace
Non-Destructive Damping Measurement for MEMS Acceleration Switches
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) three-axis acceleration threshold sensors have been developed to measure acceleration threshold levels using voltage switching when the...
Technology Report Power
V-Charging Aims to Add Muscle to Downsized Engines
Engine downsizing can sometimes include a distinct lack of torque at low revs and slow transient response, even when subtle turbocharging techniques are applied. A potential solution to...
Technology Report Automotive
Comau Enters the Small-Robot Segment with Racer3
Small robots are beginning to handle tasks inside automotive production facilities that require human-like dexterity.
Technology Report Automotive
Ford Tests Cylinder Deactivation on Its 1.0-L EcoBoost Triple
If the words “Ford Mondeo powered by 1.0-L 3-cylinder EcoBoost engine” sound a bit incongruent, now consider that the company is researching cylinder deactivation for its...
Technology Report Electronics & Computers
Mitsubishi Electric Shows New FLEXConnect Technologies
Hand gesture transfer of information from the center console screen to the head-up display or instrument cluster display is a featured capability in a Mitsubishi Electric demonstration...
News Software
Accelerated Testing of Embedded Software Code Leverages AUTOSAR and Virtual Validation
The use of the AUTOSAR standard is well known for its business benefits, but it also presents many improvements for the software engineering side of the...
News Software
Road-Surface Modeling Aims to Support Autonomous Driving
Some chief executives are enthusiastically fond of stating that their companies already possess much of the technology that would, in theory, allow them to introduce autonomous...
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Bosch Developing New Water-Injection System for Production Engines
Bosch powertrain engineers are re-investigating a technology proven in fighter aircraft engines 70 years ago to increase the efficiency of future gasoline engines for...
Briefs Defense
Fabricating Transparent and Stretchable Supercapacitors Based on Wrinkled Graphene Electrodes
Stretchable electronic devices, including solar cells, light-emitting diodes, batteries, and textile supercapacitors, have been developed to retain...
Briefs Aerospace
Modular Exhaust Design and Manufacturing Techniques for Build-to-Order Muffler Systems
Managing the acoustic signature of military vehicles can play a critical role in the safety of soldiers. Low-frequency sounds propagate through the...
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Silicon Microsphere Fabrication
The efficiency and methodology of coupling light into microcavities has improved exponentially in the last decade. One such advancement is coupling light onto silicon microspheres. The material, size, and shape...
Briefs Defense
Designing and Fabricating a Multiple-Decade Battery
There is a great need for energy sources that can power unattended sensors for more than a decade. Unattended sensors can be located in harsh and remote locations that are often dangerous for...
Technology Report Materials
Growing Natural Tire Rubber in North America
Despite ongoing advances in polymer chemistry and biochemistry, natural rubber made from rubber trees continues to be crucial to the global tire industry. This is because synthetic rubber often...
News Test & Measurement
Fiat Demonstrates Improved Fuel Efficiency with Low-Temperature Liquid Cooling Loop
The concept of a second water-cooling loop—adding a low-temperature radiator (LTR) and water cooling to replace air-cooling of the A/C condenser, turbo...
Technology Report Manned Systems
SAE and IEEE Join Forces to Explore Potential IoT Standards
SAE International and IEEE are jointly exploring a standards framework related to the rapidly emerging Internet of Things (IoT)—the billions of interconnected “smart” devices...
News Automotive
Aluminum Frame Rails, New Alloy Castings from Alcoa Help Cut 2500 Lb from Tractor-Trailers
A custom tractor-trailer technology demonstrator built by Alcoa is outfitted with various current and “soon-to-be-available” aluminum solutions...
News Automotive
Johnson Controls Invests in LTU Research Lab
The newly named Johnson Controls Vehicle Engineering Systems Laboratory recognizes the supplier’s investment in a Lawrence Technological University (LTU) lab that will serve as a vital link to...
Technology Report Power
Audi Evolves the Miller Cycle in Its New 2.0-L Spark-Ignition Engine
Audi’s next generation A4 due later this year will be the first model to receive a new 2.0-L engine that takes gasoline spark-ignition technology a step further towards...
Technology Report Software
Unstoppable Formula-SAE Team Leader Earns Rumbaugh Award
An uncertain product development budget didn’t derail the Southern Polytechnic State University (SPSU)’s Formula SAE team from scoring the school’s highest overall finish in...
Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Infrared Stereo Calibration for Unmanned Ground Vehicle Navigation
Many challenges still persist in the area of autonomous (and even semi-autonomous) vehicle navigation for unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). One challenge is in detecting and...
Briefs Unmanned Systems
Simultaneous Vibration Suppression and Energy Harvesting for a Multifunctional UAV Spar
The goal of this work was to investigate using harvested energy to directly control the vibration response of flexible aerospace systems. Small,...
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