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Behr puts the cooling touch on Kenworth T680 cabin Before designing the new Kenworth T680, engineers made sure they knew the expectations for the Class 8 truck, including the vehicle's HVAC package that features the commercial-truck industry's first automatic temperature control system. Read full story

Mentor Graphics launches natively coupled 1D-3D CFD solution As a result of its January 2012 acquisition of Flowmaster Ltd., Mentor Graphics recently sought to combine the advantages of 1-D Flowmaster and 3-D FloEFD Concurrent CFD into the first commercially available general purpose 1D-3D native CFD solution. Read full story

Aerospace leads in additive manufacturing Read full story

Cleanliness is critical in fluid circuit components The evolving nature of the industry has resulted in strict standards concerning cleanliness in the fluid circuit and most other components of road vehicles such as brake systems, fuel injector nozzles, power steering pumps, and fluid hoses. Read full story

Mentor speeds up vehicle design and development The company's Capital tool suite helps tame the challenges of vehicle electrical platform engineering by increasing data sharing between disciplines and automating the design and validation process. Read full story

Waste heat recovery by Behr improves fuel economy for long-haul trucks Roughly 30% of the energy contained in diesel fuel is currently lost via the hot exhaust gases and EGR in a truck. By using a newly developed waste heat recovery system, Behr has demonstrated that 5% or more can be fed back into the drivetrain, which could improve long-haul fuel economy by the same amount. Read full story

Galvanic corrosion modeling for aircraft environments Galvanic corrosion in aircraft is important as it occurs whenever dissimilar metals or certain types of composites are joined or are located close to each other. SICOM, a recent project involving Airbus, EADS, BEASY, and a number of research centers, investigated how the “find it and fix it” approach can be replaced by a more fundamental approach based on computer modeling. Read full story

Autonomous braking a must for EuroNCAP 5-star rating? EuroNCAP says that from 2014, new cars in Europe will almost certainly need to be equipped with autonomous emergency braking (AEB) to gain a 5-star safety rating. From November 2013, the European Type Approval of new commercial vehicles will require AEB to be fitted. Read full story

Platooning tested for first time on public roads The European SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) project has carried out a test in Spain of a road train comprising several vehicles automatically driving in convoy. Read full story