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Oak Ridge Laboratory answers the A/C-on fuel use questions |
17/04/2013
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| The lab runs fuel-economy tests with A/C on maximum vs. A/C "comfort level," A/C-off and with windows open and closed. Some results are surprising, including an unexpected "crossover" point in testing on a Toyota Corolla. |
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Manufacturing reformation |
26/02/2013
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| When the Obama administration pledges $100million towards developing a new technology, it has to be taken seriously. Additive 3D printing could well revolutionise manufacturing. |
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Composites simulation can accelerate acceptance |
21/02/2013
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| David Mason, Vice President of Global Automotive for Altair Engineering, discusses how modeling and FE analysis tools can help engineers optimize their structural composite designs—and ultimately "catalyze composites growth" in the automotive sector. |
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A new approach to Li-ion battery modeling |
16/12/2012
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| The new approach of researchers at Battery Design LLC and CD-adapco avoids the limitations of the standard approach by resolving the structure of the electrode and explicitly modeling the transport of lithium in the electrolyte and solid phases. |
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Design tools tackle big-data challenge |
30/10/2012
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| Design and validation processes that include modeling, simulation, and hardware-in-the-loop testing are creating larger and larger volumes of data, making it more challenging for engineers to analyze and understand the nuances of their designs. Tool providers are ramping up their efforts to help
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Local Motors uses crowdsourcing to involve many developers |
21/09/2012
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| The power of Web communications and the capabilities of modern design tools from the likes of Siemens PLM are being leveraged by Local Motors in crowdsourcing the design of vehicles and their components. The company is also using what it calls micro-factories to produce the designs and providing
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Oak Ridge collaborates for cheaper carbon fiber |
27/08/2012
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| Lightweight vehicles of the future will require strong carbon-fiber composite structures, but low-cost fibers are needed for market viability. Overcoming the challenges to cheaper carbon fiber is exactly what a research team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is aiming to do at its new Carbon Fiber
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Mentor speeds up vehicle design and development |
11/07/2012
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| The company's Capital tool suite helps tame the challenges of vehicle electrical platform engineering by increasing data sharing between disciplines and automating the design and validation process. |
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FEA a cool tool for thermal analysis of Li-ion batteries |
14/02/2012
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| Thermal management of a battery pack is one of the main factors to be considered in the pack design, especially for those with indirect air or indirect liquid cooling since the cooling medium is not in contact with the battery cells. |
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‘Buy to drive’ Manufacturing |
01/08/2011
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| This nylon plenum chamber was made using selective laser sintering by 3T RPD Ltd for the University of Hertfordshire |
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Born to integrate |
01/08/2011
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| Mark Fletcher talks to Nigel Hughes, product marketing director of Mentor Graphics' intergrated electrical systems division |
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Optimizing battery size and vehicle control parameters for a PHEV |
18/05/2011
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| With a wide range of design choices and the high cost of prototype vehicles, design characteristics of the battery pack that maximize the net present value (NPV) of a plug-in hybrid-electric vehicle (PHEV) need to be determined quickly and systematically. |
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Simulation data management emerges |
17/05/2011
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| With companies relying more than ever on CAE and simulations to reduce cost and time of product development, the unique challenges of managing simulation data has spawned a new look at technologies for managing that data. |
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Lethal weapons |
01/01/2011
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| Does the increase in on-board electronic control systems, and the prospects of vechicle-to-wechile and wechicle-to-infrastructure, make cars more vunerable to criminal activity? A country's whole transport system could now be crippled by cyber criminals |
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Reality check |
01/01/2011
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| Anne Asensio,
VP design & brand experience at Dassault Systèmes, talks to Mark Fletcher about, among other things, the evolving role of virtual reality (VR), both inside and outside the bounds of the design function. |
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