Wolfe's Den Engineers Are Happy in Role as Non-Managers Alexander Wolfe, Content Director5/24/2012 11 If you've remained a technical contributor, eschewing the climb up the corporate ladder, are you happy with your decision? That's the question we posed this month to members of our ...
Engineering Materials All Systems Go for Composites' Trip to Jupiter Ann R. Thryft, Senior Technical Editor, Materials & Assembly5/23/2012 16 A carbon fiber-reinforced ceramic composite material is on its way to Jupiter on the Juno spacecraft. The composite forms an optical bench on the outside of the spacecraft at the ...
Engineering Materials Bone Repair Aided by Silk Scaffold Ann R. Thryft, Senior Technical Editor, Materials & Assembly5/22/2012 19 A tough new bone scaffold material invented by Tufts University engineers uses micron-sized silk fibers to reinforce a silk fiber matrix. The composite material is the first ...
Engineering Materials Auto Composite Production on Fast Track Ann R. Thryft, Senior Technical Editor, Materials & Assembly5/21/2012 7 Carbon fiber-reinforced composites are used more often in race cars and concept cars for lightweighting and strength (as we've discussed before). But adapting their use to the needs ...
Made by Monkeys Metal Trumps Plastic in Lawnmower Andy Morris 5/21/2012 31 One of the two front wheels that propel my Sears Craftsman self-powered rotary lawnmower stopped working, while the other wheel started working intermittently. When I removed the ...
Engineering Materials Laser-Welded Metal Foam Sandwich Lightweights Ships Ann R. Thryft, Senior Technical Editor, Materials & Assembly5/18/2012 17 Glass-fiber composite foam sandwiches are already used in aircraft manufacturing to help planes shed weight, and carbon composite sandwiches using foam or honeycomb cores are also ...
Engineering Materials Robots Cut Composite Repair Costs in Half Ann R. Thryft, Senior Technical Editor, Materials & Assembly5/17/2012 25 What could be a major advance in repairing composite structures bodes well for commercial aircraft such as the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Airbus A350XWB, which contain composites in ...
Blog Plastic Doesn't Pollute – People Do Sylvie Barak, West Coast Online Reporter, EETimes5/17/2012 19 Plastic may not be the most beloved of materials to the more environmentally minded, but Plasti 2012, a Milan, Italy-based show held last week, aimed to mold a different opinion of ...
Blog DN Insight: What Rare Earth Shortages Mean for Engineers, Part 5 Kristin Lewotsky, Journalist5/16/2012 13 Rare earth elements (REEs) like neodymium and dysprosium can produce high-flux permanent magnets that can tolerate extreme temperatures without the threat of demagnetization. For ...
Design News 2011 Salary Survey: Best News in Years 8/10/2011 6 The results of our annual salary survey show solid improvements in pay, as well as overall satisfaction with the engineering profession, despite rising stress levels and a still-tight economy.
Design for Recyclability 7/12/2011 10 Component reduction through modular design and fastener standardization is paving the way for faster disassembly.
How Advanced Materials Improve Aerospace Engines 5/26/2011 1 As aerospace manufacturers look for high-temperature materials that increase performance, improve fuel efficiency and satisfy safety standards, while lowering manufacturing costs, advanced ceramics and high-performance superalloys play an increasingly important role in aerospace engine design.
High-Tech Implants 5/19/2011 1 Recovery rates for wounded U.S. soldiers are improving dramatically because of advanced processes for producing custom cranial implants.
Engineers Give Bioplastics Thumbs Up 5/5/2011 1 Many problems remain, however, including cost, properties, their claimed environmental benefits, and potential impact on food supplies.
Against a backdrop of mounting product complexity and a need to keep a lid on development costs, companies are recognizing a need to make simulation a more integral part of the design process. In response, vendors in the CAD world are building out CAE functionality as part of their CAD suites while simulation vendors are building tighter integrations to leading CAD tools. Keith Meintjes, Ph.D., Practice Manager, Simulation and Analysis at CIMdata, Inc., joins Design News CAD Editor Beth Stackpole in this radio program to explore the new face of integrated CAD and CAE, how companies are benefitting from this tighter partnership between platforms, and how integrating CAE earlier in the development cycle pays off in optimized product designs.
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