Mechanical & Fluid Systems

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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: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
In this episode of Here's an Idea, we look at a set of robots already helping out hospitals in the fight against COVID-19.
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Special Reports: Robotics, Automation & Control
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Test & Measurement - February 2021
Sensors to search for ancient life on Mars...nano-thermometers that could revolutionize temperature measurement...a major advance in semiconductor testing. These are just a few of the technologies you'll read...

Facility Focus: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Some of the technologies coming from the UT labs include COVID antibody tests, self-watering soil, and the "DRACO" robot.
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Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Disconnect terminal blocks, oscillioscope probes, test modules, and more.
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Products: Robotics, Automation & Control
Industrial robots, motor disconnect switches, position sensors, and more.
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
As 5G arrives, devices will need to expand I/O counts at the controller, as well as overall networking capabilities.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A stretchable system can harvest energy from human breathing and motion.
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Briefs: Automotive
The polyimide composites have uses in aerospace, automotive, construction, electronics, mechanical systems, and industrial machinery.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The integrated tool eliminates the need for manual operators or additional custom fixtures.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Applications include aiding patients with impaired hand muscle strength and in manufacturing for operating tools for extended periods of time.
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Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The Agile Engineering Design System® is an integrated suite of software modules for CAE/CAM of turbomachinery.
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Application Briefs: Software
New online tools — coupled with online libraries of pre-selected and tested component specifications — simplify machine design.
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INSIDER: Motion Control
University of Pittsburgh researchers have utilized a catalytic reaction that causes a two-dimensional, chemically coated sheet to spontaneously “morph” into a three-dimensional gear.
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Facility Focus: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Stanford University’s School of Engineering has been at the forefront of innovation for nearly a century
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The unit could help healthcare workers caring for COVID-19 patients.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Applications include aerospace, automotive, commercial spaceflight, scuba diving equipment, and for first responders.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This system provides low-cost monitoring for machine health with audio-based artificial intelligence.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The system uses off-the-shelf materials combined with ultraviolet lights to decontaminate N95 masks.
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Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
As engineering professor Mable Fok saw how the pole beans in her garden wrapped tightly around any objects nearby, she had an idea: What if a robotic gripper could do the same thing?
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INSIDER: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Researchers have developed a technique for manufacturing micrometer-long machines by interlocking multiple materials in a complex way. The micromachines are made out of metal and plastic, in...
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Articles: Motion Control
A panel of experts explains how robots are playing a larger role in manufacturing.
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Learn about the sensors assessing and analyzing plant equipment.
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
We explore the major scientific breakthroughs achieved during 20 years of human presence on the ISS.
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Products: Test & Measurement
Mixed-signal oscilloscopes, 3D printers, DC/DC converters, and more.
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
Jacobs' scientists are helping to make contract-tracing apps, emergency-use ventilators, and even squid-bots.
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Briefs: Aerospace
Applications include retractable covers and awnings, camera booms, and spacecraft and astronaut positioning.
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Briefs: Aerospace
NASA's phase-locked rotors reduce noise.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
These switches are key to thermal management of nanoscale devices, refrigeration, data storage, thermal computing, and heat management of buildings.
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Briefs: Wearables
Researchers developed a wearable technology that can hide its wearer from heat-detecting sensors such as night vision goggles, even when the ambient temperature changes. The technology can...
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