Vehicles

Credit: Sarh Bird/Michigan Tech Vehicle manufacturers offer smart features such as lane and braking assist to aid drivers in hazardous situations when human reflexes may not be fast enough. But most options only provide immediate…

NPSS models rockets, jet engines, turbomachinery, other technologiesCredit: SwRI SAN ANTONIO -- Sept. 29, 2020 -- Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is releasing a new, updated version of the Numerical Propulsion System Simulation (NPSS®)…

Credit: TU Delft Researchers from TU Delft have now developed a new model that describes driving behaviour on the basis of one underlying 'human' principle: managing the risk below a threshold level. This model can accurately predict…

University of Toronto Engineering researchers estimate that meeting UN climate targets would require up to 90% of US passenger vehicles to be electric by 2050, a scenario considered unrealistic Today there are more than 7 million electric…

Credit: © 2020 KAUST. A new simulation approach has enabled a first practical, and highly accurate, computation of the noise characteristics of complex three-dimensional airfoil designs under extreme operating conditions. By…

Engineers develop Hyperspectral Stripe Projector to quickly merge depth, spectral dataCredit: Kelly Lab/Rice University HOUSTON - (Sept. 24, 2020) - Stripes are in fashion this season at a Rice University lab, where…

Collaboration awarded $1.89 million Department of Energy grant to develop adaptive traffic control systemsCredit: University of Tennessee-Chattanooga Center for Urban Informatics and Progress CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (September 23, 2020)…

Small, speedy rover completes preliminary design reviewCredit: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH -- MoonRanger, a small robotic rover being developed by Carnegie Mellon University and its spinoff Astrobotic, has completed its…

New bench systems improve accelerated aging of emissions control systems SAN ANTONIO -- Sept. 22, 2020 -- Southwest Research Institute has added two test stands to its Exhaust Composition Transient Operation Laboratory -- ECTO-Lab™.…

Credit: University of Warwick - Lithium (Li)-ion batteries (LIBs) are the electrochemical energy storage systems of choice for a wide variety of applications, however other types of emerging battery technologies are currently on…

Credit: Andrew Sproles, ORNL/U.S. Department of Energy Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory used new techniques to create a composite that increases the electrical current capacity of copper wires, providing a new material…

Security software for autonomous vehicles Before autonomous vehicles participate in road traffic, they must demonstrate conclusively that they do not pose a danger to others. New software developed at the Technical University of Munich…

Marine vehicles can reduce friction by mimicking the way aquatic creatures secrete mucusCredit: Hyung Jin Sung WASHINGTON, September 15, 2020 -- Long-distance cargo ships lose a significant amount of energy due to fluid friction.…

Stanford technology predicts the slow death of lithium-ion batteries Batteries fade as they age, slowly losing power and storage capacity. As in people, aging plays out differently from one battery to another, and it's next to impossible…

Both elements are critical for applications such as self-driving cars PITTSBURGH--Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new metric for evaluating how well self-driving cars respond to changing road conditions and…

Results could inspire novel bio-inspired underwater vehiclesCredit: David Murphy and coauthors In the world's oceans, billions of tiny marine snails (a form of plankton) commute daily between surface waters, where they feed at…

A battle for economic and strategic advantageCredit: World Scientific Why does infrastructure matter? Anthony Rowley, a veteran economic commentator, argues that advanced economies neglect infrastructure at their economic, social…

In conjunction with Australia's Department of Defence, University of South Australia material scientists have developed a range of lightweight panels that can change colour on demand, allowing drones to match their appearance to the…

Credit: Graph courtesy of the researchers (Rebecca Ciez); Redesign by Bumper DeJesus In one of the first comprehensive assessments of the fuel economy standards in the United States, Princeton University researchers found that,…

Credit: Ping Liu lab Scientists at UC San Diego have discovered a new anode material that enables lithium-ion batteries to be safely recharged within minutes for thousands of cycles. Known as a disordered rocksalt, the new…