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News

Toronto shifts to LED lighting as answer for energy efficiency

High-temp resistance makes Victrex PEEK polymer ideal for anti-friction bearing cages

Bosch expands automotive electronics engineering capacity with new technical center

World's smallest SMD detection switch now available
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Feature Articles

Sikorsky aircraft engineers tackle bigger, more complex simulations
A powerful computing cluster solution from SGI is helping engineers accelerate the process of designing the largest helicopter in the U.S. military. With the SGI Altix XE cluster, propulsion engineers at Sikorsky Aircraft, a business unit of United Technologies Corp., are able to run larger, more complex airflow simulations as they refine design concepts for the CH-53K, a next-generation cargo and personnel aircraft to be built for the U.S. Marine Corps.
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Maintain compliance and ensure safety through efficient label design
For manufacturers, safety labels on their products have never been more important. Inadequate warnings could have a wide variety of consequences for the manufacturer, its employees, and its customers — consequences that range from non-compliance to lawsuits to minor injuries or even death. This article provides a high-level overview of the label development process, including a look at the organizations setting the standards, the basic elements of label development, and how a properly designed label should look before it is placed on the product.
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Armor: It does a body good
What really made Clark Kent so admirable to us, and dangerous to super-villains? The freak was bulletproof. In a very real sense, we want to be just as indestructible. In response, engineers are finding new and ingenious ways of protecting the flesh through ceramics, woven fibers, and even biologically produced materials like spider silk.
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Hockey jerseys go hi-tech with MIT help
Dr. Kim Blair, an MIT research affiliate in Sports Innovation, was tasked to test the new National Hockey League uniform, designed and manufactured by Reebok. He subjected three prototypes and the old uniform to wind-resistance testing in MIT's powerful wind tunnel and supervised their thermal testing at Central Michigan University. He was able to determine which of the prototypes was lighter, less bulky, and less prone to retaining moisture than its predecessor. The Boston Bruins became the first team to show off the new jersey in June; it will be adopted by the rest of the league in the upcoming season.
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Wheels: Bio-fuel-powered car claims world speed record
Who says that going green means going slow? 220.7 mph is the new world record for a street car in the standing mile, achieved by the E85 Viper owned by Karl Jacob. The previous standing mile record was 217.85 mph held by a gasoline-powered street car. The record proves that power and performance do not have to be sacrificed for environmental responsibility.
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Geared up
Share your opinions and ideas on designs and pressing industry topics
This week: Microturbines and the engineers who love them
Here at DesignFax, we're always amazed at some of the truly ingenious products and inventions that come across our desk every week. Most of the time however, we have to sort through the many press releases and industry tip-offs to try and figure out what is truly important and interesting to our subscribers. Some ideas are better than others. That's why we were delighted when Jon Teets of TMA Power, LLC contacted us through our reader feedback section with a simple question: He had invented something … was anyone interested?
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Guides

Literature, guides, catalogs, and other great free stuff: Always more than 50 new resources

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