Find multimedia resources and technical briefs covering complex mechanical components and technologies. Find the latest applications that design engineers are using to meet their design challenges.
Videos: Motion ControlVisualization of NASA’s Air Taxi with Side-by-Side Rotors, for Urban Air...
INSIDER: AerospacePlane Flies with No Moving Parts
Podcasts: Aerospace
Blog: Test & MeasurementQ&A: After a Successful Landing, What’s Next for the InSight Mission?
Blog: CommunicationsQ&A: Catching Up with Automotive Cybersecurity Researcher (and Jeep...
INSIDER: EnergyNew fuel cell concept brings biological design to better electricity...
As Industry 4.0 initiatives bring more and more industrial axes of motion into the realm of automation, the need for cost-effective control across them grows as well. Advances in...
Glenn's revolutionary Shape Memory Alloy Rock Splitters (SMARS) device is fabricated from nickel-titanium-halfnium (NiTiHf), nickel-titanium-zirconium compositions, or a combination. These compositions contain a secondary, nanometer-sized precipitate phase that is produced through processes of...
Typical direct-injection engines, such as diesel engines, can produce soot due to fuel-rich combustion conditions. Filters and catalytic converters are currently used to reduce soot and harmful...
Engineers and software developers are seeking to create technology that lets users touch, grasp, and manipulate virtual objects while feeling like they are actually touching something in...
NASA's Langley Research Center has developed the SHEARLESS composite boom with a final cross-section shape that is lenticular and is flexible enough to...
The crash test dummy has come of age over many decades as the gold standard for safety testing of automobiles. Organizations...
The USB-1808 Series simultaneous-sampling data acquisition devices from Measurement Computing Corp., Norton, MA, provides synchronous and concurrent voltage I/O, waveform...
Ames Laboratory is a government-owned, contractor-operated national laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), operated by and located on the campus of Iowa State University in Ames, IA. For more than...
Gas turbine blades of conventional rotorcraft turboshaft engines are optimized to operate at nearly a fixed speed and a fixed incidence angle. If the operating condition of the engine changes, then the flow...
Most naturally occurring materials have a disordered atomic structure that interferes with the propagation of both sound and electromagnetic waves. When the waves come into contact with these...
Researchers have developed a new propulsion concept for swimming robots that exploits temperature fluctuations in the water for propulsion without the need for an engine, propellant, or power supply.
Breakaway devices are used to mount objects to systems or structures (for example, cars, drones, helmets, buildings) and prevent damage when the objects fall away from the system. Unfortunately, even in ideal scenarios, many of these devices have limitations. Breakaway bolts and shear pins have the complication...
Derived from a design approach for a new wing known as PRANDTL-D, this technology achieves similar improvements for propellers and other rotating machinery.
The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit effort begun by Dutch inventor Boyan Slat, wants to clean up 50% of “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch” in five years, with the aim of a 90% reduction by 2040.
Using a 600-meter long floater, or collection platform, called System 001, the Cleanup technology...
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) filters have advantages in being able to reduce the size, weight, and power required when used as part of electronic systems such as radios; however, MEMS-type filters have limitations. For example, thickness MEMS-type filters (e.g., thickness-extensional mode...
This column presents technologies that have applications in commercial areas, possibly creating the products of tomorrow. To learn more about each technology, see the contact information provided for that...
Robots that are adapted to respond to physical human-robot interaction (pHRI) traditionally treat such interactions as disturbances, and resume their original behaviors when the...
Professor Hopkins and University of Virginia colleagues — in collaboration with materials scientists at Penn State, the University of Maryland, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology — have studied a material that can dynamically regulate its thermal...
The SpectraLock Optical Monitoring System from Eddy Company (Apple Valley, CA) provides in-situ monitoring and deposition rate control to produce...
Reliability and longevity directly impact the cost of using Q-switched, diode pumped, solid state, ultraviolet lasers in industrial applications. Damage to the intracavity harmonic crystal is...
Aluminum has an incredibly high energy density — double that of gasoline and an order of magnitude greater than...
Solution for Rapid Emissions Testing for Vehicles and Components
ToF & FMCW Automotive LIDARS: Design Challenges
Reducing Development Time for Machine Control Systems
Becoming Compliant with the MDRs: A Real-Life Case Study
Uncertainty Quantification for Simulation Modeling in the Medical...
Blog: Green Design & ManufacturingResearchers Convert Plastic Bottles into Aerogels that Insulate and Absorb
INSIDER: PropulsionPlane Flies with No Moving Parts
Unique Lift System Enables Installation and Servicing of Large Telescope Mirrors
Products: MaterialsProduct of the Month: November 2018
Blog: Test & MeasurementQ&A: After a Successful Landing, What’s Next for the InSight Mission?
Blog: CommunicationsQ&A: Catching Up with Automotive Cybersecurity Researcher (and Jeep Hacker)...
