Aircraft brakes stop a moving aircraft by converting its kinetic energy to heat energy by means of friction between rotating and stationary discs located in brake assemblies in the wheels. Brakes ...

The price of industrial robots has dropped more than 25 percent since 2014, and is forecast to drop an additional 22 percent by 2025. What is the real cost of an industrial robot arm?

Learn about the operating principles, advantages and disadvantages of three major actuation technologies used on aircraft.

Is additive manufacturing or 3D printing the best fabrication process for metal parts? Will the properties of the print metal parts meet the needs of application? How do the various 3D alloy printing ...

Engineers and professional staff at industrial plants know that raw, intermediate, and final products may be highly corrosive to plant piping, heat exchangers, vessels, and other equipment, as well as ...

This article is the conclusion of Welding Digest's three-part series on aluminum welding. Be sure to read Part 1 about aluminum's thermal and reactive properties, and Part 2 on melting and ...

Figure 1. VPT specializes in the design and development of radiation-hardened and tolerant, space-grade DC-DC converter modules and box level power solutions. Source: VPT, Inc. Radiation is a ...

Proper understanding of when and how to preload a bearing is critical in precision rotary applications, especially in high-speed applications. A properly preloaded bearing will have higher rigidity, ...

Almost 50 years after its introduction, the PLC remains the dominant industrial control unit despite the rise of PC-based systems.

Combined-cycle natural gas generation is displacing King Coal. And although renewables promise a bright future, combined-cycle power plants (CCPP) are efficient, clean and inexpensive generating ...

Ceramic pump materials may provide enhanced performance, low wear, high-temperature capability, corrosion resistance and low media contamination. In general, ceramic materials have extremely high ...

Even if you doubt that human activity impacts climate change, engineers are increasingly tasked with designing products for the global marketplace, and despite loosening regulations in the U.S., most ...