Application Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Technology Report: Power
In an announcement signaling automakers’ continuing R&D efforts for internal-combustion propulsion, Mercedes-AMG said it is preparing to launch a new,...
News: Propulsion
The 2020 Kia Telluride is one of the classic lightning-in-a-bottle models an automaker enjoys maybe once every couple of decades. Assertive-but-not-obnoxious styling combine with a vast cabin...
News: Propulsion
Originally published in 1995 and held in high regard, Allied Aircraft Piston Engines of World War II is Graham White’s...
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Strategies to control solid rocket propellant regression rate require a robust throttling technique applicable to high performance propellant...
News: Propulsion
NASA officials in Washington are pledging to conduct a thorough investigation into the cause of an anomaly with a rocket booster on the Soyuz MS-10 manned spacecraft,...
Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Applying reverse thrust redirecting engine power to oppose the direction of travel is a standard technique for decelerating aircraft after touchdown. The approach saves wear on...
Application Briefs: Defense
Beloit, WI
1-800-356-6955
www.fairbanksmorse.com
Fairbanks Morse - an EnPro Industries company - has been awarded a contract to deliver eight FM | Colt-Pielstick diesel engines to power...
Application Briefs: Defense
Falls Church, VA
703-280-2900
www.northropgrumman.com
The U.S. Navy recently awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a $9.6 million contract, with...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The main objective of this research was to construct an optical pump system that would allow the study of Er:GaN materials under 980 nm resonant excitation to be carried out. The results obtained...
Articles: Aerospace
Heat pipes are a well-known thermal management solution used in computing applications. Nearly all laptop computers contain some number of heat pipes to effectively remove heat from heat generating...
Briefs: Test & Measurement
In the study of combustion characteristics of liquid rocket fuels, it is customary to either study the combustion of liquid fuel droplets...
Articles: Aerospace
The steady rise in demand for high-thrust, big-fan engines for new wide-body commercial airplanes continues to generate massive business, as the 2015 half-year results from Rolls-Royce demonstrated. But at the same time,...
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The global aerospace sector has always represented the cutting edge of practical technology advancement. When the first military jet engines emerged in the post-war 1940s it was clear that commercial...
Technology Update: Aerospace
Since it first became an active cold-weather testing facility in 1947, the 96th Test Wing's McKinley Climatic Laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base, FL, there have been a wide variety of...
Articles: Test & Measurement
Aerospace and defense platforms are often regarded as the earliest adopters of new materials and processes technologies. Materials test programs provide validations of...
Articles: Aerospace
It is fairly well known within the aerospace community that telemetry is moving from the traditional L-band and S-band frequency ranges up to C-band. It is widely understood that...
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Fleet piping systems are complex, space-constrained systems that are difficult to inspect using standard external inspection techniques. Pipe lagging, as well as limited space,...
Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
Engineers increasingly rely on simulation to augment and, in some cases, replace costly and time consuming experimental work. However, current simulation capabilities are...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
Abullet cannot penetrate through a sandbag while an arrow can, so understanding the behavior of granular materials such as sand and its energy absorption in a blast is...
Articles: Aerospace
Compression springs are a critical component of firearm performance and durability. Making a recoil compression spring perform properly in the extremely limited space available in most firearms, and ensuring...
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
All Navy aircraft and missiles use gasturbine engines for propulsion. Many ships are also dependent on gasturbine engines to generate both propulsive power and electricity. These engines are fundamentally...
Briefs: Materials
High Strain Rate Mechanical Properties of Glassy Polymers
Arange of experimental data has been generated describing the response of glassy polymers to high strain rate loading in compression. Recently, research programs that study the combined effects of temperature and strain rate have made significant steps in providing better understanding of...
Briefs: Information Technology
Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and other traditional under-body blast weapons are a significant threat to military ground vehicle systems. Engineers and scientists...
Application Briefs: Defense
Manassas, VA
(540) 351-1736
www.schiebel.net
Schiebel recently conducted the successful first flight of a heavy-fuel-powered CAMCOPTER® S-100 UAS (Unmanned Air...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Anovel tested technology for cooling electronic circuitry is also useful in many other industries. The method is called “Thin Cavity Fluidic Heat Exchanger”(TCFHE). Technology details can be...
Briefs: Materials
Size Scale and Defect Engineered Nanostructures for Optimal Strength and Toughness
Realistic combinations of ceramics and/or semiconductors have been developed that simultaneously achieve high hardness (>40 GPa) and toughness (>400 MPa*m1/2). To achieve this goal, there were three primary objectives: (1) the development of physically...
Application Briefs: Defense
The desire to get home safely dwells in the back of the mind of every soldier. The battlefield provides enough mortal dangers without soldiers having to wonder whether or not the weapons they carry could...
Application Briefs: Defense
Lansmont Corp. engineers have developed the active impact surface design technology for several test machines currently installed at the Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, Maryland and the Air...
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