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SAE International releases new process for measuring aerosols in aircraft exhaust

2019-03-05

SAE International has published a new recommended practice for assessing the amount of nonvolatile particulate matter (nvPM) that exits aircraft engine exhaust nozzles – ARP6481: Procedure for the Calculation of Non-Volatile Particulate Matter Sampling and Measurement System Losses and System Loss Correction Factors

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Dual-purpose engine stand

2014-04-16

Champion GSE has developed a dual-purpose stand for its -1B and -2B GEnx engine platforms.

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Soft tests for autonomous vehicles

2018-03-15

Statistics may point to human fallibility being the cause of almost all road accidents, but the switch to a connected robotic environment must ultimately deliver every nano-second of every day on the promise of a guaranteed near-total safety highway environment. Today’s grudging acceptance by the global public of the inevitability of deaths and injuries on the road will not continue in a driverless environment.

Studying steering-system NVH

2018-03-15

Systems-based analysis at Saint-Gobain shows how a small part can make a big difference to steering, and to overall vehicle quality.

SAE International

2018-02-06

Rolls-Royce's Richard Goodhead sees the changes that will result from the company’s IntelligentEngine, launched as a concept at the Singapore Airshow, as being “almost as big of a change as going from a piston engine to a gas turbine.”

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Blizzard conditions test FCA's 4WD and AWD vehicles

2015-08-11

A $2.5 million upgrade turns an existing climatic cell into one of the industry's most capable facilities for 4x4 and AWD vehicle development.

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SAKOR develops 'spacecraft emulator' to test Dream Chaser control system

2015-07-29

SAKOR Technologies supplies a test system for the Dream Chaser atmospheric flight control system, serving as a spacecraft emulator to test overall system performance.

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Static application security testing tools

2017-03-13

PRQA features updates to its static application security testing (SATS) solutions for the C and C++ languages, QA·C and QA·C++.

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Custom wireless measurement

2015-08-26

TECAT has developed a system to measure torque on a flexplate accurately and in-situ.

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Data acquisition

2014-04-16

The M300 data acquisition and datalogging system from Rigol Technologies integrates the company’s 6.5-digit multimeter technology into a versatile system mainframe.

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Electric motor testing

2014-04-16

dSPACE offers a flexible solution for hardware-in-the-loop testing of electric motors, combining Scalexio architecture with a programmable FPGA board and scalable electronic load.

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Suspension parameter measuring machine

2014-04-28

AB Dynamics’ updated suspension parameter measuring machine (SPMM), the SPMM5000, is a fixed ground plane kinetics and compliance test machine that measures suspension parameters and characteristics like the SPMM4000 on which it is based.

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Acrylic flow meters

2014-04-01

Dakota Instruments’ 6A03 acrylic flow meters are offered with interchangeable direct reading scales for air, water, argon, oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, helium, and hydrogen.

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Stationary laboratory data acquisition system

2017-02-11

Diversified Technical Systems' (Seal Beach, CA) SLICE PRO LAB system offers the same electronics and flexibility as its crash-hardened SLICE PRO data acquisition modules, but in laboratory enclosures, making it suitable for a variety of static testing such as crash test dummy calibration.

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Government-sanctioned test site opens up airspace for MIT researchers

2014-03-24

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Temperature indicator with fixed probes

2014-04-01

Palmer Wahl Instrumentation Group’s Wahl DST500-FM temperature indicator with fixed probes is a high-accuracy, wide-range thermometer designed for hazardous locations where accurate and reliable temperature monitoring is critical.

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Heavy brake re-gen feel dominates i3 driving experience

2014-04-15

With its i3 slated to reach U.S. customer hands in early May, BMW is ramping up production of its first mass-produced all-electric vehicle.

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Hardware-in-the-loop simulator

2017-01-03

With the new SCALEXIO LabBox, dSPACE offers a compact high-performance system for hardware-in-the-loop tests.

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New 10-speed is a delight in the 2017 F-150

2017-01-19

Ten transmission ratios feel ideal in Ford's full-size pickup equipped with the 3.5-L V6 and the new 10R80 planetary automatic.

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SAE Eye on Engineering Quick Take: Mcity Testing Facility Unveiled

2015-08-10