Mechanical & Fluid Systems

Mechanical Components

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.

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Podcasts: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Dr. Frits Bliek and his team at Ocean Grazer are building an "Ocean Battery" that brings hydrodam technology to the sea.
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Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Fiber laser machinery, polishing pitch, beam collimators, and more.
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Application Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Learn about the interconnects that are supporting today's miniature satellites.
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Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Microwave measurement receivers, oscilloscopes, longwave infrared cameras, and more.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Large machines can breathe in and out cooling blasts of water to keep their systems from overheating.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These elastomers have a wide range of uses for the building, automotive, and electronics industries.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The robots move more quickly on solid surfaces or in the water than previous generations of soft robots.
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Articles: Communications
Breath-regulating garments, humidity sensors, thin-film antennas, and more.
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Briefs: Communications
The suit can be controlled with a double tap to the chest or via an app.
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
An ultra-small actuator has nanometer-scale precision.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The engine is approximately 10 billion times smaller than a car engine.
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
The device combines with body power to treat tendon disease and damage, and sports injuries.
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Briefs: Materials
The system creates accurate defect standards for in-situ inspection systems.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
An electrically driven soft valve paves the way for fully soft robots.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
This robot can run, jump, carry heavy payloads, and turn on a dime.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
SensiCut, a smart material-sensing platform for laser cutters, can differentiate among 30 materials commonly found in makerspaces.
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Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Motors, suspension arms, slit couplings, and more.
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Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
As more manufacturers implement robots, hand guidance tools and techniques will continue to expand in functionality and become even easier to use.
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Articles: Motion Control
Hypoid gears have a growing presence in the industrial power transmission and motion control industries.
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Application Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The retrofit uses unconventional technologies.
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Articles: Software
Learn what to look for when selecting computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) programming software for the DED manufacturing process.
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Briefs: Aerospace
Potential uses include MEMS accelerometers, vibration monitoring, and other precision motion control applications.
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Briefs: Motion Control
This mechanism improves rotordynamic stability in turbomachinery.
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Briefs: Aerospace
The film monitors how well aircraft and spacecraft withstand the mechanical stresses of flight.
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Briefs: Wearables
A tiny sensor chip records multiple lung and heart signals along with body movements.
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Blog: Transportation
A reader asks our industry expert:""Do the materials of construction have a big effect on gear generated noise?"
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Special Reports: Electronics & Computers
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Medical Manufacturing & Outsourcing - November 2021
In this new report from the editors of Medical Design Briefs and Tech Briefs magazines, discover how the latest advances in 3D printing, machining, molding and more are changing the way...

Question of the Week: Aerospace
Will Spinning Magnets Clean Up Space Debris?
Our lead story today highlights an effort from the University of Utah to use spinning magnets – and robots – to someday retrieve scraps and bring them to a decaying orbit.
Blog: Aerospace
Prof. Jake J. Abbott is leading a team that has discovered a way to manipulate orbiting debris with spinning magnets.
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