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Jan 29 | News
Novel research on improving the simulation performance of hardware models created in a language called SystemC, often used to shorten manufacturing design cycles to improve the time it takes to bring a product to the marketplace.
Jan 7 | Application Notes
Computer-based machining systems make basic metalcutting a largely plug-and-play process. In most cases, a 3-D CAD file run through a CAM package and posted to a CNC machine tool will produce a part that resembles the original model.
11/18/2009 | News
The bow shock in this image formed during the Oct. 28, 2009, launch of the Ares 1-X test rocket. The shockwave partially envelopes the upper stage containing both the crew module and an expendable secondary booster. This portion of the Ares 1 crew launch vehicle is built using aluminum-lithium alloy 2099, an alloy which earned its maker, Alcoa, an R&D 100 Award in 2007.
11/3/2009 | News
Scientists at Rice Univ. took the wraps off a new method this week for industrial-scale fluid processing of pure carbon-nanotube fibers. A key step in reducing the cost of nanotube production, say developers has been coming with a fluid-based process that achieves low cost in much the same way as the polymer industry. The long-developing technology required, among other things, the development of advanced imaging of exotic and quickly changing acid solutions.
10/23/2009 | News
Scientists at Caltech have uncovered the physical mechanism by which arrays of nanoscale (billionths-of-a-meter) pillars can be grown on polymer films with very high precision, in potentially limitless patterns. This nanofluidic process could someday replace conventional lithographic patterning techniques now used to build three-dimensional nano- and microscale structures for use in optical, photonic, and biofluidic devices.
10/19/2009 | News
Typically, aerospace grade composites are produced using an
autoclave curing process that can take many hours. An experimental jet with the
Air Force Research Laboratory is built almost entirely of a new version of this
composite that can be manufactured in far less time. The platform, which cost
less than half of a conventional design, has more than 600 accelerometers and
stress gauges.
10/6/2009 | News
The Univ.
of Washington has become
the first American university to collaborate with the well-known Italian
sports-car company. Their cars already use carbon fiber composites extensively,
and the new lab is intended to push the science further to create lighter,
stronger materials for use in cars and other manufactured products.
10/6/2009 | News
Researchers in Australia are pioneering a new type of on-stream mineralogy platform that will allow automated mining machines to be equipped with a x-ray diffraction and fluorescence sensors that can perform real-time analysis on mineral properties, quickly differentiating ore grades. The system can achieve parts per billion levels.
8/11/2009 | News
The editors of R+D Magazine have named Solexant Corp., developer of third-generation ultrathin-film PV technology, a winner of its 47th Annual R+D 100 Awards for the most technologically significant p...
6/29/2009 | Tools And Technology
Baumer has introduced the FFDK 16 Photoelectric Level Sensors, compact sensors designed to be mounted onto transparent or half-transparent standpipes from 3-13 mm in diameter.