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Discovery about new battery overturns decades of false assumptions After falling into National Corvette Museum sinkhole, restoration of 1-millionth Corvette underway Ford tests cylinder deactivation and flywheels to amp up EcoBoost engine fuel efficiency UK's first major trial of self-healing concrete gets underway |
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New High Precision Piezo Motion Controller MICROMO announces the DMC-30019 Single Axis Controller from PiezoMotor. The DMC-30019 is a customized controller/driver for use with Piezo LEGS® motors from PiezoMotor Uppsala AB (Sweden). The unit is built on the DMC-30000 Pocket Motion Controller Series, the latest generation single-axis motion controller from Galil Motion Control, Inc. With the Piezo LEGS® direct drive, motor size is significantly reduced and precision is gained by elimination of bulky and lashing mechanical parts.
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Most popular article of the year: 3D-printed Shelby Cobra born from giant additive manufacturing machine (Wow!) |
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 It took six weeks for designers, engineers, and finish techs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to put together a fully drivable 3D-printed Shelby Cobra replica. The bright blue sports car, a celebration of the racing car's 50th anniversary, was hurriedly prepared in the short term for a debut at the 2015 North American International Auto Show in Detroit this past January. In the long term, the feverish efforts produced a working lab on wheels that aims to become a plug-and-play testbed for new engine, fuel cell, and battery technologies.
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Aluminum battery touted as safe, fast-charging alternative to conventional Li-ion batteries Stanford University scientists have invented the first high-performance aluminum battery that's fast-charging, long-lasting, and inexpensive. Researchers say the new technology offers a safe alternative to many commercial batteries in wide use today.
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Army, commercial engineers demonstrate anti-drone technology With the explosion of military and consumer drone usage around the world, new anti-drone technologies -- from missiles to radio jammers to lasers that fry UAVs in the sky -- are rolling out to track, immobilize, and destroy flying threats.
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Custom rifle barrel makers learn trick from fabricators of less-sophisticated pieces Hammer forged barrels are not well thought of by precision rifle shooters, but a critical manufacturing process used by the hammer forging guys is suddenly getting attention from custom barrel makers today.
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IED-like blast waves simulated against Army helmet prototypes The U.S. Army is looking at helmet prototypes with optional parts to protect the face and jaw from various threats, including blast waves. But, as Dr. David Mott -- an aerospace engineer at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory -- says, more parts lead to more surprises.
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World's thinnest light bulb is one atom thick, reaches temps above 2,500 deg C An international team of scientists has demonstrated an on-chip visible light source using graphene, an atomically thin and perfectly crystalline form of carbon, as a filament. Creating light in small structures on the surface of a chip is crucial for developing fully integrated "photonic" circuits.
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Wings: Engineering researchers simulate what happens when a drone strikes a commercial jet turbofan Researchers at the Virginia Tech College of Engineering have created computer animations of what would happen if a drone were pulled into a commercial airliner's turbo fan engine block.
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Mike Likes: All-new CadMouse for CAD professionals Designed using extensive CAD-user input, the 3Dconnexion CadMouse is the first mouse made specifically for CAD professionals. It combines powerful, ergonomic hardware and smart, easy-to-use software. It features a dedicated, full-size middle mouse button; QuickZoom; a smart scroll wheel; an advanced laser sensor; a gesture/radial menu button; and optimally shaped PTFE feet. Power users will have the CadMouse in one hand and the 3Dconnexion wireless SpaceMouse Pro or SpaceNavigator in the other.
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Engineer's Toolbox: Spinel wears new mantle as transparent armor for Soldiers, products Imagine a glass window that's tough like armor, a camera lens that doesn't get scratched in a sand storm, or a smartphone that doesn't break when dropped. Except it's not glass, it's a special ceramic called spinel {spin-ELL} that the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has been researching over the last 10 years.
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Top Product: Copper foam Copper foam from Goodfellow combines the outstanding thermal conductivity of copper with the structural benefits of a metal foam. These features are of particular interest to design engineers working in the fields of medical products and devices, defense systems and manned flight, power generation, and the manufacture of semiconductor devices. This product has a true skeletal structure with no voids, inclusions, or entrapments. A perennial Designfax favorite.
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Top Product: High-hardness 3D-printing materials If your vision of the future is 3D printing your own high-hardness steel bearings right at your location on demand, your wish has been granted. A new development from the NanoSteel Company supports the market need for on-demand, on-site wear parts while addressing the current challenges in 3D printing of high-hardness parts. NanoSteel's powder alloy overcomes one of the major hurdles to achieving a high-hardness metallic part through additive manufacturing: the tendency to develop cracks during part builds. The company worked with a global process development partner to optimize processing of a proprietary NanoSteel alloy with a high volume fraction of borocarbide phases. This successfully produced a fully dense (99.9 percent) crack-free part with hardness values over 1000 HV, wear resistance comparable to conventionally manufactured M2 tool steels, and a uniform microstructure.
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| Engineers at GE Aviation made a simple 3D-printed mini jet engine and then had it roar to life at 33,000 rpm. The backpack-size screamer was built over the course of several years to test 3D printing's capabilities with metal and high-strength, high-temperature alloys. "We wanted to see if we could build a little engine that runs almost entirely out of additive manufacturing parts," said Steve Grimm, the plant leader at the Additive Development Center outside Cincinnati, in a GE Reports interview. "This was a fun side project."
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