More articles by John R. Gyorki

Adding tire performance to its vehicle-dynamics simulations lets the Newman-Haas Racing team more accurately predict how a car will handle on a particular track.

The Dynalifter, a 120-ft-long, heavier-than-air, two-seat blimp/airplane hybrid lands like an airplane so it doesn't need a ground crew like traditional airships, say designers Brian Martin and Robert Rist.

A novel process offers an inexpensive way to monitor the speed of small permanentmagnet motors.

High-resolution infrared cameras let users see hot components in such settings as electrical cabinets.

The vector plot is a cross section of
a four-electrode array.

I currently own a '98 Cavalier sedan and was curious to find out what exciting things might have changed over the past two years. But I was a bit disappointed.

Mechanical components intended to run in clean rooms for wafer fabrication must comply with uniform industry standards that dictate the number and size of particles they can generate.

The first thing I noticed about the Safari as I boarded her was that I had no place to plant my left foot.

The retention force of a spring is difficult to set accurately under a mechanical assembly press when it's measured as displacement. But a digital servosystem reliably does the job.

The move to distributed networking for factory automation using Ethernet & TCP/IP is widely accepted, but there is also a move, perhaps not so obvious, to digitally networking servosystems using IEEE-1394.