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Better than diamond: NRL researchers discover novel material for cooling electronic devices Cracked metal heals itself to the astonishment of MIT scientists GE scientists working on electric air jets that could smooth out your plane ride Chinese scientists produce world's lightest material IMPORTANT message for gmail users -- both personal and corporate email accounts |
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Mobile Measuring Systems Deliver Best-In-Class Precision Powered by DC micro-drives, a miniature, vibration-free measuring device that detects even the smallest irregularities has been created. Measuring devices for surface roughness measurement are usually rather large. In the past, the measuring object has always been brought to the measuring device rather than vice versa. In order to give this micro device best-in-class precision, vibration resistance, and portability, FAULHABER DC Motors from MICROMO were used.
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Wheels: Ford develops totally new sheet metal 3D forming process |
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 How do you stamp out prototype sheet metal parts without "stamping" them in a single blow -- and without a die to boot? No, it's not a Zen riddle. It's a question that Ford engineers have been working on for a while, and now they think they have the answer.
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FEA aids Deepwater Horizon failure forensics On the evening of April 20, 2010, Deepwater Horizon suffered a blowout while drilling in the Macondo Prospect, an area in the Gulf of Mexico 40 miles off the southeast coast of Louisiana. The platform caught fire, and two days later, it sank. Eleven crewmen were killed. The spewing oil caused the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history. In this article, engineers use Abaqus Finite Element Analysis to do some of the detective work concerning what went so terribly wrong with the rig's blowout preventer stack.
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Is bigger better? Not always when it comes to golf driver heads Engineers at Adams Golf talk about the reasoning behind their development of the company's successful Speedline driver line in 2009 and how using NX Flow software from Siemens PLM Software in new-generation models has changed their engineering game and radically sped up their time to market.
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Wireless devices go battery-free with new communication technique We might be one step closer to an Internet-of-things reality. University of Washington engineers have created a new wireless communication system that allows devices to interact with each other without relying on batteries or wires for power.
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Flywheels inside make for surprisingly simple self-assembling robots Researchers at MIT have created some amazing small cubes with no exterior moving parts that can propel themselves forward, jump on top of each other, and snap together to form arbitrary shapes.
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'Magic powder' is secret to inflatable space antenna design for CubeSats Researchers at MIT have come up with an inflatable antenna design that may significantly increase the communication range of small satellites called CubeSats, enabling them to travel much farther in the solar system. But the real story is in the "magic powder" used to inflate the device.
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Wheels: Jaguar conquers America's Snowbelt with 4WD For Jaguar, competing across the broad swathe of "Snowbelt" states in North America meant equipping its XJ and XF luxury sedans with four-wheel drive -- something totally new. Time was short, so international automotive design expert Ricardo was summoned to help. Jesse Crosse reports.
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Wheels: Johnson Controls has simple 'aha' moment in seat-adjustment design When engineers at Johnson Controls decided to try to simplify seat adjustment in small and compact vehicles, they didn't look at adding an extra dial, a new button, or even a better lever. They looked at how drivers of different heights adjusted their seats, and that put them on the right track. Literally.
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Watch out graphene: 2-D tin may be the next super material A single layer of tin atoms could be the world's first material to conduct electricity with 100 percent efficiency at the temperatures that computer chips operate, according to a team of theoretical physicists led by researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University.
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Engineer's Toolbox: Gear crowning: A cheap fix for noise With the demands for smaller gearboxes transmitting more power at higher rpm and incumbent demands for greater efficiency, gear engineers are always searching for new ways to reduce vibration and limit noise -- without increasing costs.
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Top Mike Likes: Plastic parts with no molds required How often have you wondered what life would be like without having to worry about paying tooling charge after tooling charge for products in early development? The "No Molds Required" (NMR) manufacturing technology from Envision Plastics & Design could be your answer. This unique production process harmonizes a combination of sheet metal fabrication and woodworking practices to produce plastic parts used for enclosures, panels and shrouds, brackets and shields, medical-based products, and more.
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Most Popular Stories Part 1 What's the No. 1 most-read story in Designfax for 2013? What research stories did readers find most interesting in the past six months? What products and tools generated the most buzz? Find out these answers and more in our best-of issue Part 1.
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Bigger really is better: 'Impossible dream' achieved in Sikorsky human-powered helicopter challenge |
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| After 33 years of trying, a team has finally won the American Helicopter Society (AHS) Igor I. Sikorsky Human-Powered Helicopter Competition -- and its $250,000 prize! The challenge: fly a human-powered helicopter above 3 m and hover for more than 60 sec in a 10-m x 10-m space. Canadian team AeroVelo Inc., comprised largely of students at the University of Toronto, flew its extremely novel (and huge!) ATLAS pedal-powered helicopter for 64 sec June 13. A single pilot powered the craft, which featured four, nearly 70-ft rotors attached to a 115-lb carbon-tube and polymer frame. The AHS first issued the human-powered flight challenge in 1980, with an initial prize of $10,000. More than 20 human-powered helicopters have been designed and built since the competition began, though only a handful have gotten off the ground. Officials from AHS International verified the flight data over several weeks and concluded that it met all of the criteria necessary to win the competition. Sikorsky increased the prize to a quarter-million dollars in May 2009. Who would have guessed that this would be the winning design? Incredible.
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