Transportation Reference Materials
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Low-Pass Filters and Their Applications in Aerospace
Description: A low-pass filter is an electronic circuit or signal processing technique that allows low-frequency signals to pass through while attenuating or blocking higher-frequency signals. It is commonly used ...
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Filters and Their Applications for Aerospace and Defense
Description: Filters are essential components used in various fields, including signal processing, electronics, telecommunications, and many other industries. In the context of signal processing, a filter is a ...
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Different Types of Aerospace Electronic Components
Description: The design, production, and use of aircraft, spacecraft, satellites, and related systems are all included in the broad scope of the aerospace industry. The vast range of applications in the aerospace ...
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American Boat and Yacht Council (ABYC) codes
From: Tecmark CorporationDescription: ABYC E-11 – AC and DC electrical systems on boats and S-31 Environmental Considerations for Systems and Components Installed Onboard Boats ...
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How Electric Rail Innovation is Driving Rail's Future at the Heart of Sustainable Mobility
Description: This article explores key challenges for sustainable electric rail and how innovation is helping address these challenges. It highlights the importance of a holistic approach, encompassing ...
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GETTING TECHNETICAL: Flying in Green Skies
From: Technetics GroupDescription: Aviation contributes to 2% of all CO2 emissions, which is something the industry wants to change. Jason Riggs, Director of Strategy at Technetics, spoke with Tyler Kern about some of the aviation ...
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EMALS: Learning to Launch
Description: Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) A closer look at this exciting technology ...
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Unmanned Vehicles - All Around Us & Poised for Growth
Description: These UV’s find use in government and military applications, in academic and scientific research, in hydrographic surveys and a wide range of commercial applications. They can be built to run ...
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Getting Technetical: The Future of Commercial Aerospace 2022
From: Technetics GroupDescription: The commercial aerospace market was profoundly impacted by the sudden disruptions in travel due to the pandemic. Despite these challenges, the fundamentals for aerospace and defense remain strong. ...
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How is the Aerospace Industry Adapting to the Climate Challenge?
Description: It's hard to have a conversation about the aerospace industry now without coming back to its carbon footprint and the imperative to get from its current 2.5% share of global emissions to net zero by ...
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Why Process Optimization and Collaboration are Necessary to Fuel the Aerospace Manufacturing Recovery
Description: As the commercial aerospace manufacturing sector begins to recover, it's worth taking stock of where it was before the pandemic, the challenges it faces now, and how it can meet them. ...
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Braking Resistors Helping to Automate Parking System
From: Isabellenhutte USADescription: Isabellenhütte’s braking resistors provide reliable operation for powerful servo motors ...
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Our Resistors Helped to Introduce a New EPS Rack Concentric System
From: Isabellenhutte USADescription: Our problem-solvers worked with both OEM and end customer to troubleshoot deficiencies and develop a new product solution quickly. ...
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Supporting Next-Gen Braking Needs
From: Isabellenhutte USADescription: Isabellenhütte’s BVT and BVB components provide high power density with a small (and shrinking) footprint. ...
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Tesla Tech News Is Always Interesting
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: Much of the news of late has been about the Tesla Cybertruck, which was announced a while back to great fanfare. More recently, they've announced a release date - it goes into full production in 2022 ...
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Isabellenhütte Provides Formula 1 with Controlled Means of Acceleration for Nearly A Decade
From: Isabellenhutte USADescription: Converting kinetic energy into electricity-and then into victory. ...
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Urban Air Mobility: Taking Traffic Into the Third Dimension
Description: Global urbanization continues at a rapid pace, increasing congestion times around cities. Urban Air Mobility (UAM) has the potential to take traffic into a third dimension of more efficient city ...
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Automotive Lighting Solutions
Description: Automotive technology is undergoing a major transformation. A greater number of electronic components is needed to support the advancement of sensing and safety functions required for autonomous ...
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Automating Road Maintenance with LiDAR Technology
From: SICKDescription: First place team of SICK's TiM$10K Challenge creates product to automate the process of road maintenance for local governments ...
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Case Study: Reduce Scrap and Improve Performance
From: ifm electronic gmbhDescription: Company: Global manufacturer of high-performance automotive components. Goals: Improve performance through scrap reduction ...
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Case Study: Improve Equipment Availability
From: ifm electronic gmbhDescription: Company: Global manufacturer of high-performance automotive components. Goals: Optimize operations and comply with corporate Industry 4.0 initiatives ...
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ROHM Automotive Lighting Solutions White Paper
Description: Automotive technology is undergoing a major transformation. A greater number of electronic components is needed to support the advancement of sensing and safety functions required for autonomous ...
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Automated Guided Vehicles and item Supply Trolleys In Use at Audi
From: item America, LLCDescription: In state-of-the-art automotive manufacturing, modularity and versatility are increasingly important factors when it comes to planning and implementing material supply trolleys for intralogistics. ...
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Conductor Bar 0812 Part of Niagara Falls' Incline Railway's Ups and Downs
From: Conductix-WampflerDescription: It's been almost 30 years, but tourists are again able to ride the reborn "Maid of the Mist" rail down into the Niagara Gorge. In 2017, Hornblower Niagara Cruises began the work of bringing the old ...
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Double Sided Cooling for Hybrid Vehicle
From: BoydDescription: The development and production of electric and hybrid vehicles has been on the rise over the last 2 decades and this trend is likely to increase exponentially over the next 20 years. As automotive ...
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Seven Secrets of 3D Printing for Aerospace
Description: With additive manufacturing (AM), aka 3D printing, you can track the advancement of the technology into production environments alongside the rapid adoption of additive in the aerospace industry. ...
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SUCCESS SECURED WITH LOCTITE Threadlockers Drive Specialty Vehicle Innovation
Description: Local Motors, a technology company, faced two different challenges when it set out to build two very different vehicles: the Rally Fighter®, a high-performance off-road machine; and the ...
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Deep Space With Humans on Board: New Material Enables 3D Printed Parts on Orion
From: Stratasys, Ltd.Description: If space is the final frontier, then human travel in to deep space, beyond the Moon, is the ultimate frontier. NASA's Orion program intends to do just that - travel with humans on board back to the ...
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AS9100D-Certified Suppliers Keep Aerospace Companies Soaring
From: Proto Labs, Inc.Description: Every industry has its own series of quality requirements and inspections associated with the types of outputs that its end products are meant to perform. The aerospace industry finds itself in an ...
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Lockheed Martin Explores a Different Kind of Space for NASA
From: Proto Labs, Inc.Description: Mankind first set foot on the moon in 1969, laying our first footprints on our orbiting partner, roughly 230,000 miles away. Nearly five decades have now passed since we last visited. Today, NASA is ...
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Chemistry Drives Structural Bonding and Lightweight Solutions for Battery Electric Vehicles
Description: As the global market for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) continues to grow, electrification is shaping the future of automotive design. Electrification systems are more powerful and intricate than ...
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Lightweight Construction: A New Era
Description: The car of the future will be electric - that much is clear. However, manufacturers still face some major challenges before comprehensive and emissions-free electromobility becomes a reality. In ...
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Structural Foam Hybrid Body Panels Enable Significant Vehicle Weight Reduction
Description: Structural inserts from Henkel are designed to enable significant weight reduction while maintaining structural integrity and crash safety standards. ...
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IPLEX GX/GT - Fast and Reliable Inspections for Automotive OEMs
From: Evident ScientificDescription: Automotive inspections are challenging due to the large, complex structure of cars and the location of critical components - deep inside the engine, for example. Videoscopes are well suited for ...
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Engineering and the VW Scandal
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: As an engineer who's also a "car guy", I've monitored the VW emissions scandal with some degree of sadness. I've always been proud of being an engineer, and one of my points of pride has been that our ...
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Application Spotlight: Self-Locking Rings in Automotive Applications
From: SmalleyDescription: Smalley offers an array of standard retaining rings for different applications. Selecting the appropriate ring requires an understanding of the application requirements, which includes thrust load, ...
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Apollo 11: We Touched the Moon and Now Aim at the Stars
Description: A brief history and a look at what the future holds ...
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Opportunity Knocks: Precipart Helped Power Historic Mars Rover
From: PrecipartDescription: Here at Precipart, we're proud to have played a small part in the mission, alongside the engineers, scientists, and NASA leaders who designed, engineered, and piloted the Mars rover. It's an honor for ...
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Measurements of Automotive Parts
Description: As technologies have progressed, car manufacturers have had to ensure the precision production of parts and casing to ensure the smooth running and ultimate performance they strive to achieve, whilst ...
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Spotted: ifm and the car for Africa
From: ifm electronic gmbhDescription: Many cars on the streets of Africa have already driven many thousands of kilometres, in most cases in Europe. The newly created aCar by Evum Motors however has been designed especially for the African ...
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Automotive radar technology, market and test requirements
Description: This white paper explains the basics of automotive radar, MIMO radar signal processing, applications and market trends. Test and measurement requirements for research and development, mandatory ETSI ...
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Power Solution for Rail Transit
Description: Abstract: China has the world's largest high-speed rail network as long as 20,000 km so far, which not only comprehensively enhances the quality of China's road network but also further develops the ...
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Railway Applications & Selection Guide --- DC/DC Converter Used on Rolling Stock
Description: Abstract: This paper introduces components of vehicle electronic equipment of rail transit and different requirements for them, and puts forward key points complying with EN50155-2007 standard for ...
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Automotive EMC Measurements with Oscilloscopes
From: Teledyne LeCroyDescription: This article provides some insight into making effective automotive electromagnetic-compatibility measurements using an oscilloscope. ...
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Reducing Component Weight for Automotive Applications
From: Proto Labs, Inc.Description: Manufacturing process and material considerations for lightweighting ...
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Zipcar Technology
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: What with Omar's post of February 12th, and mine last week, it looks like February has been Car Technology Month here at Critical Link. We're really not all that car mad, it's just that there's so ...
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Positive Train Control
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: In September 2008, a terrible collision between a freight train and a commuter train in California took twenty-five lives. Just last summer in Spain, a derailment caused by speeding, resulted in 80 ...
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ADAS Simulation Under Severe Vibrations
From: Altair Engineering Inc.Description: Automotive radars are becoming standard equipment on vehicles. Their purpose is to adjust the distance between vehicles and/or alert the driver when dangerous situations arise. Since 2010, the safety ...
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The Critical Role of Chemistry in the Vehicles of Tomorrow
Description: Today, the automotive industry is witnessing history in the making on multiple fronts. Advanced Driver Assistance Systems are changing the very idea of the driving experience. In concert with ADAS, ...
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Solved Application Story #01 | Aerospace and Aviation
Description: HELI-CAL Flexure 2403 ...
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Automated Solutions for SAE Standard HUD Measurement
From: Radiant Vision SystemsDescription: Head-up display (HUD) technology is one of the largest growth areas in the automotive market, with a key focus on increased passenger safety through improved vehicle operations and operator awareness. ...
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3 FAQs in Aerospace Engineering
From: CEF Industries LLCDescription: In the aerospace manufacturing industry-whether commercial or military-there are many common questions frequently asked by clients. There are processes and terms that often need to be clarified, and ...
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Getting on Track with Railcar Linings for Chemical Service (.pdf)
From: Polycorp Ltd.Description: With railways crisscrossing the United States, it's nearly impossible not to spot a train during the daily commute. Chances are the train you see is towing quite a few tank cars, which are probably ...