Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
News: Manned Systems
SAE International is inviting global participation in its AeroTech® aerospace and defense technology conference and exhibition, which is for the first...
Articles: Weapons Systems
Briefs: Test & Measurement
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
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Articles: Motion Control
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
Zur Igal, Israel
+972 9 749 6823
www.uvisionuav.com
UVision Air Ltd. — a company that specializes in lethal aerial loitering systems of all sizes — has successfully...
Briefs: Materials
Natural DNA-Based Nonvolatile Resistive Switching Memory
Motivated by the demand for an even larger storage capacity in the information era, research efforts have been devoted to the development of more efficient and cost-effective memory elements.
Briefs: Aerospace
Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) devices have drawn much interest in the last decade,...
Application Briefs: Defense
Levallois-Peret, France
+33 1 58 63 16 00
www.saftbatteries.com
Saft was recently selected by Aero Vodochody Aerospace, a leading designer and manufacturer of military and civilian aircraft, for engine...
Briefs: Materials
With superhydrophobic properties being extended to a variety of metallic substrates through the process of ablation due to femto-second...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
One obstacle in the scaling of high-power fiber lasers arises because of nonlinear effects (e.g., stimulated...
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: Imaging
NASA's Langley Research Center has developed an aircraft-based turbulence and vortex detection system. Turbulence and vortices in the front-flight path are very dangerous for...
Briefs: Aerospace
It has been established theoretically that self-propulsion of deformable bodies in ideal fluid can occur with a careful specification...
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Identifying the Flow Physics and Modeling Transient Forces on Two-Dimensional Wings
The main objective of this research was to better understand the flow physics of aircraft wings undergoing highly unsteady maneuvers. Reduced-order models play a central role in this study, both to elucidate the overall dynamical mechanisms behind various flow...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The purpose of this research was to investigate non-volatile memory device technologies that could be applied to reconfigurable electronics applications to provide power reduction,...
Application Briefs: Defense
Trelleborg Sweden
+46 410 670 00
www.trelleborg.com
Trelleborg Sealing Solutions has designed and built a new airframe/engine seal fire test facility...
Articles: Aerospace
Aviation safety is a fundamental concern for all stakeholders. The traveling public demands the highest safety standards, but also wants convenience and reliability at a low price with minimal...
Articles: Aerospace
The perverse thing about ice on the tailplane of a general aviation aircraft is that the pilot sits and looks forward, but the tailplane is aft. You can’t see it from the cockpit.
Briefs: Aerospace
The prevalence of blast-induced traumatic brain injury (bTBI) has...
Articles: Aerospace
As OEMs seek advantages in Size, Weight, Power and Cost (SWaP-C), focus is shifting to advancements in power electronics. Gaining an advantage requires close attention not only to...
Technology Update: Defense
With its eye on Mars, NASA Armstrong has been working on a prototype it refers to as the Preliminary Research Aerodynamic Design to Land on Mars, or Prandtl-m, which is “a flying wing aircraft with a...
Articles: Aerospace
It is hard to imagine just how radical the change in fortunes for the world’s major commercial aerospace manufacturers has been in the last few years. Just ten years ago the smart money in aerospace...
Technology Update: Defense
For the design process of the class of aircraft known as an efficient supersonic air vehicle (ESAV), particular attention must be paid to the propulsion system design as a whole...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
ADLINK Technology (San Jose, CA) has released its new IMT-1 Android 4.2 tablet, integrating the TI OMAP5432 1.5GHz dual-core ARM A15 processor for high performance computing power. Built-in WLAN or optional WWAN...
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