Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI, has been awarded an $800,000 federal grant for the development and installation of an environmental/loading chamber that will be used to test vehicle armor and armor structural components made of advanced materials in its Center for Innovative Materials Research (CIMR).
The new test chamber will enable full- and partial-scale vehicle and […]

LMS Imagine.Lab Fuel Cells helps fuel cell manufacturers design and optimize fuel cell stacks and systems via an easily accessible one-dimensional modeling environment. With LMS Imagine.Lab Fuel Cells, users can size components, optimize architecture and geometries, and develop and test control strategies. In addition, electrochemical researchers can opt to integrate and test different gas mixtures […]

Motor Authority is reporting that Volkswage has begun testing its Car-2-Car communications system, which allows vehicles to communicate with one another and whose goal is to improve road safety. The article notes,
[The Car-2-Car system] will allow vehicles to communicate potential hazards and other important information to nearby vehicles. For example, if a vehicle encounters an […]

AMREL SPS-V and SPS-K programmable switch-mode power supplies provide up to 1.5kW. They feature PFC, very high-power density (1U package), and zero-stackability. These models output 1.5kW in a 1U package.
Features include standard Ethernet/USB/RS-232/GPIB interfaces, vented panel and closed-case calibration for increased reliability and ROI, keypad and encoder for simple navigation, VLIST and ILIST auto-sequencing for […]

The Sound Level Technical Committee handles the development of standards related to noise control. It’s seeking members to participate in the standards development process. The standards include the test procedures for sound level measurement (SAE J88 and SAE J919), noise exposure (SAE J1166) and the effectiveness of audible warning systems (SAE J994, SAE J1105, and […]

Today’s crash test dummies made of rubber and steel will soon be joined by next-generation Human Body Models (HBMs) designed with precise detail, but living only in the world of computer-generated virtual reality. The HBMs were created by the Global Human Body Models Consortium, LLC (GHBMC), established in 2006, by a group of nine automotive […]

A large-scale demonstration of inter-vehicle communication will take place on 22 and 23 October 2008. At the Opel proving ground in Dudenhofen near Frankfurt am Main, the new car-to-car (C2C) communication technology is demonstrated in real life. The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is one of the parties involved in […]

When most of us think about Bose, we think about expensive radios and headphones. Few know that they also make materials testers. The article, “Fatigue Testing - Automotive Fatigue Life and Dynamic Mechanical Analysis of a Matrix Polymer by Bose ElectroForce Systems,” explains how they got into the business:
Bose engineers had developed a specialized moving-magnet […]

The IDT N-Series are small, light cameras for safety testing. The N-3 provides 1280 x 1024 images at 1000 FPS, while the N-5 offers 2352 x 1728 images at 500 FPS. With 10-bit (mono) or 30-bit (color), configurable RAM, Gigabit Ethernet and both MP3 and PDA compatibility.
Weighing under two pounds, the N-Series cameras require fewer […]

A new report describes tests carried out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the wireless environment in automotive manufacturing facilities. The measurements, carried out through a joint collaboration between NIST and USCAR, indicate that these facilities are highly reflective, reverberant environments that can complicate reliable performance of wireless technology. The measured […]