Mechanical/​Mechatronics

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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Applications include valves, tubes, and other gas and fluid system components.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
The device retrains patients with spinal cord injury to sit more stably and gain an expanded active sitting workspace.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
These actuators provide active flow control for airfoil surfaces and supersonic inlets of wing-borne vehicles.
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Briefs: Propulsion
The additive creates fuel from biomass while improving engine performance.
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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Dr. Beth Holloway has been the Director of the Women in Engineering Program at Purdue University since 2001 and serves as...
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Briefs: Aerospace
This trailing edge flap device reduces noise without compromising cruise efficiency or landing lift and stall characteristics.
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Articles: Materials
In the past 15 years, Renee Bernstein doubled the growth of her company by focusing her attention to research and product development.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This cost-saving piping insulation has uses in refrigerated containers that protect food, medicine, and other perishables.
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Articles: Connectivity
Your preview of one of the largest technical mobility events of the year.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The bus is designed for high-frequency, high-temperature operation in electric drive systems and next-generation power electronics.
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Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
Beta Technologies is putting their Electrical Vertical Takeoff and Landing aircraft (eVTOL) prototype through the wringer.
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Briefs: Wearables
Drones, smartphones, and sensors could provide a lifeline to the world’s growing elderly population at risk of falls.
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Articles: Transportation
To clear up some of the confusion about what the industry means when it says 5G, here’s a guide to what it’s all about.
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Application Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
An interview with Mike Horton, CTO of ACEINNA, Inc. (Boston, MA).
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
Increase battery life and reduce data loads with an analog-first processing architecture.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
Researchers have developed new nanoscale technology to image and measure more of the stresses and strains on materials under high pressures.
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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Altering the traditional intensity distribution of fiber lasers improves weld quality.
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Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Anand Gopalan, CEO of Velodyne Lidar, Inc., discusses lidar software for ADAS and autonomous vehicles
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Blog: Aerospace
University of Washington engineer James Koch observed patterns in a promising, but often-unpredictable rocket part: The rotating detonation engine.
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Blog: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
How does testing a metal 3D-printed part compare to testing a casted one? That's the elephant in the room, says industry pro Kevin Brigden.
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Blog: Photonics/Optics
See what caught Bruce A. Bennett's eye during Day 1 of Photonics West 2020 in San Francisco.
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Blog: Software
Researchers from the University of Illinois are looking at all the different ways to create a non-pneumatic automotive tire.
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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Such machines, only a few tens of micrometers across, could be used in the human body to perform small operations.
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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Machine and system designers now have greater options in choosing a motor to meet motion control requirements.
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Briefs: Aerospace
Systems of tiny robots could build high-performance structures, from airplanes to space settlements.
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Application Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is home to one of the largest buildings in the world — the massive Vehicle Assembly Building — and also hosts a number of one-of-a-kind facilities. The more...
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Briefs: Transportation
These soft robots can be rolled up and carried in a pocket.
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Briefs: Motion Control
Conventional fastening mechanisms like nails, bolts, and welds are subject to manufacturing and inspection tolerances, differential thermal growth, and other sources of error that lead to over-constraint, among other...
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