| January 09, 2024 | Volume 20 Issue 01 |
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 | New Tapered Section Rings from Smalley!
Smalley is bringing you even more retaining ring solutions! When you need a quick and economical heavy-duty ring, our newest standard series, Tapered Section Rings (circlips), is here to secure your assembly needs. They can be axially installed into a bore/shaft groove to safely secure assemblies in place. In stock from 0.25 - 3", or 3 - 75 mm in Spring Steel SAE 1060 and 1074. Request no-cost samples to test.
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In this issue of Designfax
- Basketball-size inverse-Wankel rotary engine
- First-ever Mustang GTD: Street-legal track supercar
- Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170: Fastest muscle car
- Boeing to build NASA braced-wing plane
- Why was Roman concrete so durable?
- Will a hydrofoiling boat fly in America?
- New corrosion protection plastic repairs itself
- Top Product: New Raspberry Pi 5
- Top Tech Tip: Gear crowning -- a cheap noise fix
- Top Tech Tip: Sheet metal design guide
- Top Product: Slimmest enclosure AC on the market!
- Top Product: Clamps hold any shape
- Top Motors: What is Sensorless Closed Loop?
- Top Product: What is a C-Flex Pivot Bearing?
- Videos+: Technologies and inspiration in action
- How Lexus fixed Tesla's bad idea
- Custom hot rod parts: Digital sheet metal forming
- What's inside a Lucid Motors EV motor?
- Most Popular Last Issue
- Ford 2,000-hp SuperVan debut at Pikes Peak
- Assembly tape could cause phone battery drain
- Amazon delivers on massive CAD conversion project
- New Products
- Electrical, Mechanical, Motion
Cover Image: Mustang GTD, Dodge Challenger, Boeing Braced-Wing Plane
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News
Bye-bye silicon: Intel unveils glass-chip future
Big discovery: Metals can heal themselves
NASA and DARPA developing nuclear rocket engine for future Mars missions
Antimatter gravity experiment answers big scientific questions
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 | Will a hydrofoiling boat fly in America?
Swedish boat builder Candela aims to electrify America's No. 1 boat segment: center consoles for fishing, families, and watersports. The company's 29-ft C-8 CC model flies on computer-guided hydrofoils, which are underwater wings that enable it to soar above the waves using 80% less energy.
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 | Top Tech Tip: Sheet metal design guide
If you're looking for a basic guide to sheet metal design, this one from Xometry will serve your needs well. Follow the design requirements and tolerances to ensure parts fall closer to design intent. This is the type of information you'll sock away and then refer to again and again.
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 | Top Product: Slimmest enclosure AC on the market!
Seifert's SlimLine Series of enclosure air conditioners integrates unique technologies -- maximum power-to-size ratio, mounting of merely 4.5 in. inside-cabinet depth -- making this line the slimmest AC in the market. It features Seifert's proprietary condenser design for improved cooling and reliability. Cooling capacity: 1,090 to 5,120 Btu/hr.
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 | Top Product: Clamps hold any shape
These simple OD and ID clamping solutions from Fixtureworks clamp onto your part in one easy operation, eliminating the need for custom fixtures. They allow users to clamp onto the inner or outer diameter of small-size, irregularly shaped work parts fast. Lots of options.
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 | Top Product: What is a C-Flex Pivot Bearing?
It's a flexure-based bearing utilizing internal flat crossed springs, capsuled in a cylindrical housing, to provide precise rotation with low hysteresis and no frictional losses. The C-Flex bearing will offer infinite life when used within its rated load and rotation values. Applications include Medical, Industrial, Aerospace, Semiconductor, and Optical.
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| | Videos+: Technologies and inspiration in action | How Lexus fixed Tesla's bad idea: Steer-by-wire yoke
Are you ready for steer-by-wire tech, where there is no mechanical connection between the steering wheel and the front wheels of your car? Engineering Explained's Jason Fenske runs through the advantages and disadvantages, and why Lexus' system (available on upcoming Lexus RZ 450e models) with self-adjusting variable steering ratio is a winner over Tesla's attempts to implement the technology.
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What's inside a Lucid Motors EV motor?
Take a deep dive into electric vehicle motor design and manufacturing. Lucid Motors' CEO/CTO Peter Rawlinson and Powertrain VP Emad Dlala share how the company's "relentless focus on efficiency" led it to develop a 67-lb electric drive unit that can generate 670 hp for Lucid's high-end EVs. Learn about the company's innovative stator and rotor designs -- and so much more. Worth skipping through if you are short on time.
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