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The U.S. Department of Energy awarded more than $5 million to two projects intended to lower the costs of advanced fuel cell systems. Each three-year project will work to meet [...]

A new toughened epoxy, Scotch-Weld DP920 from 3M Co., forms strong metal-to-metal bonds on oily surfaces. While some acrylics also bond oily surfaces, 3M claims the epoxy is stronger and [...]

Motion capture animation helps endow computer-generated movie characters with lifelike behavior. Now researchers at a large consumer-goods company are looking to meld motion-capture and finite element analysis techniques to get [...]

An acrylic foam structural tape from 3M Co., with high-strength adhesive on both sides, has been around for 25 years. The tape, called VHB, is used to join everything from [...]

Pentair Inc. of Golden Valley, Minn., has entered into an agreement to acquire water system company WICOR Industries, a unit of Wisconsin Energy Corp. of [...]

Engineers at LeTourneau Inc. Equipment Group wanted to move from two-dimensional to 3-D design for several years, but an executive requirement that any new CAD application include a design management [...]

THE U.S. ARMED FORCES rely on the H-60 to carry troops, cargo, even electronic-jamming equipment. Variations of the helicopter include Black Hawks, Pave Hawks, and Seahawks. The manufacturer, Sikorsky Aircraft [...]

Battelle of Columbus; Ohio, has acquired the Pipeline. Simulation Facility in West Jefferson, Ohio, and will rename the facility the Battelle Pipeline Safety & Reliability Center. The facility includes a [...]

After 18 months spent trying to find a table saw manufacturer to license his safety device, a blade brake, SawStop inventor Steve Gass decided he'd have to build his own. [...]

Take-up units are the last but critical step in wire and tubing extrusion. They must wrap hundreds of feet of product neatly on spools. Jennings International, a manufacturer of extruders [...]

Weighing 55 tons between them, VV two parts of a decommissioned incinerator at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory floated out of the Idaho Falls facility last year on [...]

The article focuses on the life and achievements of Josiah Willard Gibbs, particularly his significant contributions to modern thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Topics include Gibbs's pioneering work in thermodynamic processes, his graphical representation of free energy, and his impact on engineering applications of thermodynamics.

Manufacturers of mobile road milling machines, crushers, wood chippers, grinders, and shredders typically use a device called a power take-off to harness the power of a truck engine's flywheel to [...]

In developing an inline zipper applicator for vertical form-fill-and-seal packaging machines, Hayssen design engineer William Cheek wanted to stay clear of the serpentine timing belt arrangement he had seen on [...]

Jergens Inc. of Cleveland now includes its library of tooling components on the Web as 2-D or 3-D solid models in formats for neatly all CAD systems, including SolidWorks, Catia, [...]

Like many of his fellow workers, 48 -foot-tall Hammering Man, who stands outside the gate at the Seattle Art Museum, took Labor Day off. It's the only holiday he gets [...]

The article announces the winners of ASME Awards 2022 including Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, dean emeritus of New York University of Engineering, retired Brigadier General Daisie D. Boettner and Tsu-Wei Chou, Pierre S. du Pont chair of engineering at the University of Delaware.

The article focuses on researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington developing a microbot system for diagnosing bladder diseases more effectively, outlined in a paper titled "A Microbot With an Attached Microforce Sensor for Transurethral Access to the Bladder Interior Wall." It mentions the system, equipped with a microforce sensor and designed to navigate the bladder's interior wall tissue.

Discusses the factors that determine the success or failure of developing an effective product. Origin of the difference between success and failure; Example of achieving total quality development in product design; Examination of two fictional case studies.

The article focuses on the history of Dynamic Systems and Control Division of American Society Of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Its periodical "Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control" (JDSMC) has been a research publication. The articles from journal suggested that it dominated the university-based work. Industrial participation has been the top priority in its topics with other areas being nanotechnology, multivehicle control, time-delay systems and automotives. All articles of the journal except the topic of time-delay systems refer to mechanical systems.

The article provides information on the nuclear power engineering research by the Nuclear Engineering Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers published in the "Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power" (JEGTP) in the U.S. In April 2008, the Division selected JEGTP for the publication of the studies relating to gas turbines, energy and power. These papers provide the best technological solutions to define the technology, policy and market issues to achieve a more sustainable energy system.

The gas turbine machine is one of the major innovations of the 20121 century which has provided society the fastest mode of transportation and one of the cleanest, cost competitive and most thermally efficient means of producing electrical, mechanical, and propulsive power. The development of gas turbines has a long yet phenomenal history of technological advancements and the gas turbine is a unique ever-evolving technology due to multitudes of param eters and technologies influencing its design and performance as comprehensively elaborated in a recently published paper by the author. Gas turbines have become preferred choice due to many advantages offered over other technologies: lowest cost/kW, high power density, high power-to-weight ratio, fuel flexibility, wide ranging applications, and fast- and black-start capabilities. In the ongoing climate change discussion, the gas turbine technology is expected to play an important role in mitigating proper utilization of renewable energy sources and global warming impacts in coming years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on the Design Automation Committee (DAC) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The DAC implements projects in the areas of design representation, optimization, integration and evaluation. The committee sponsored the 39th Design Automation Conference which was held in Portland Oregon, and will sponsored the 2014 ASME IDETC Design Automation Conference in Buffalo, New York.

The article offers information on honors and awards given by the Fluids Engineering Division (FED) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). They include the ASME Medal, the Fluids Engineering Award, and the Freeman Scholar. Also mentioned are the Graduate Student Steering Committee and the Young Engineer Paper contest.

The article announces several engineering awards including the Edward N. Cole Award for Automotive Engineering innovation to John J. Moskwa, the 2013 Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award to Dumitru I. Caruntu and the HVAC&R Research Best Paper Award to Bryan Rasmussen.

The article focuses on a special issue of the Journal of Applied Mechanics, which presents research papers on innovations in vehicle connectivity and automation aimed at optimizing vehicle operation and powertrain controls to reduce energy consumption and emissions.

The article offers various developments related to mechanical engineering. Singiresu S. Rao from the University of Miami is the recipient of the 2012 Design Automation Award. The 24th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology was held in Chicago, Illinois. The MNS Innovator Award has been announced which recognizes impact and innovation across MNS research areas.

The article offers information on the faster and easier manufacturing technique, origami, where when the paper folds are opened just right, it becomes microfluidic channels which perform medical tests, and origami sensors can be used for checking malaria and HIV for 10 cents a test.

The article reports that the Energy Committee of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has issued two papers in the Energy Talking Points series. It states that the paper, ETP3 examines oil imports for transportation sector in the U.S., and around 1 billion dollars a day is spent by U.S. to import petroleum. It mentions that ETP4 discusses nuclear fuel cycle, for reprocessing and switching to reactors capable of fissioning isotopes of uranium.

The article discusses a paper selected for presentation at the 2010 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) which was held in Houston, Texas, on May 3-6, 2010. The paper focuses on the development of the Azurite marine field, which was installed in the Republic of Congo, as a way of providing context for evolution of the Floating, Drilling, Production, Storage and Offloading (FDPSO) concept and also highlights other applications for FDPSOs. The Azurite field started producing offshore and employed the industry's FDPSO vessel to develop the field.

The article offers an overview of the history and journey of the Pressure Vessels and Piping (PVP) Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) as it celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2016. Topics covered include the Pressure Vessel Research Committee (PVRC), the PVP Division's vision, mission and growth, and its leadership, structure and function. Also mentioned are the PVP Division's conferences and previous anniversary celebrations.

The article offers information on the research related to the design of robots that is inspired by origami actuators build with artificial muscles such as paper, metal, and plastic sheets that can be used to lift heavy weight.

Reports on a sensor called UniForce, produced by Force Imaging Technologies, which measures pressure greater than 20,000 psi despite being only 0.003 inch thick.

The article focuses on the efforts of helicopter manufacturers to make sustainable aircraft, including Bell's announcement of the first flight of a single-engine helicopter running solely on sustainable aviation fuel.

Describes the grid scrubbing method used in industrial plants to control emissions. Characteristics of industrial emissions; Features of scrubber grids; Use of Ahlstrom Machinery Corp.'s catenary grid scrubber at the Finch Pruyn pulp and paper plant; Installation of Kenneth Schiffner's grid scrubber at Nestle Foods.

The article reports on the use of ancient Japanese paper-folding art of origami by scientists for designing strategy to make novel mechanical materials. It mentions that engineers could transform such materials known as metamaterials into mechanical cloaking devices. It also mentions that acoustic metamaterials divert sound waves and could shield an underwater object from sonar or protect people from earsplitting noise.

The article offers information on the 19th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE-19) which will be themed "Energy Strategy for the Nuclear Era--Decoupled from Fossil."

The article looks at the origins of the International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI) and its growth that supported the technical development of the gas turbine industry. It traces the origins of IGTI and its development which has been centered on its annual expositions which has presented 16,000 referenced papers and published in conference proceedings. It also highlights the milestones and facts making up the history of IGTI.

The article evaluates several innovative technical products including the Puck, which is used to drive servomotors in robots, from Barrett Technology Inc., NEMA 23 servomotor from Quicksilver Control Inc., actuators made from paper developed by Babak Ziaie, professor of electrical engineering at the Birck Nanotechnology Center of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

The article informs about the global warming as a link between fossil fuels, carbon dioxide, and temperature. Topics discussed include radiation absorbed by that added C02 closely corresponded to increases in measured mean temperature; measured concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere had increased; and laws of radiation together with absorptivity and wavelength data.

The article discusses that with single-stream collection, MRFs receive the mixed material and sort it all employing a combination of humans and machines such as screens, rotating discs, forced! air, density-based separation, magnets, and optical material identification. It mentions that recyclers could ignore contamination as long as China was willing to import huge quantities of materials; and also mentions that artificial intelligence (AI) technology will become the brain of MRFs.

The article informs about some engineers who have been nominated for the Fellow grade of membership by the Board of Governors of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Some of these nominated engineers include Memis Acar, Khairul Alam, David G. Alciatore, David M. Anderson, Malcolm J. Andrews, to name only a few. Acar has been a researcher and faculty member for 30 years. He has written over 120 journal and conference papers and has recieved over two million dollars in grant money from national and international sources. Anderson has had a 33-year industrial career and holds professional registrations in Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering.

The article offers information on a series of white papers being issued by the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce as the first step in reviewing the renewable fuel standard.

The article focuses on a new heat treatment process developed by researchers at MIT that allows for the 3D printing of high-temperature components like gas turbine blades and vanes. It mentions the process, called directional recrystallization, creates stronger, more durable materials with upgraded creep resistance and allows for a new level of control over the material's properties, including the opportunity for functional grading and the ability to tailor the elastic properties.

The article offers information on the Paper Skin, a device used for detecting variations in electrical conductivity, from Integrated Nanotechnology Lab of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.

The article discusses the highlights of the 2014 American Society of Mechanical Engineers' Dynamic Systems and Control Conference held in San Antonio, Texas from October 22 to 24, 2015. A program was held in celebration of the achievements of the society's general chair Suhada Jayasuriya and the event features presentations of papers on automatic control.

The article focuses on the ASME expanding its ASME Digital Collection by incorporating content from three new contributors, including the Digital Library of ASTM, 200 business titles from Business Expert Press, and select reference materials from the American Welding Society.

The article focuses on the ASME 2024 E-Fest Digital, celebrating student and young engineer achievements in virtual competitions, with notable winners including Sajon Seaberg of Purdue University for the Charles T. Main Student Leadership Awards.