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The U.S. Army and Marine Corp needed a new personnel carrier, one that could handle the rocky terrain of Afghanistan and withttand mine attacks. After a...

Lower operating costs are pushing many companies designing and building off-road equipment to replace hydraulic and mechanical drives with electric hybrids. They let diesel engines...

Read Machine Design Editor Leland Teschler's editorial on high-speed rail and mass transit. Then log in and join the discussion.

Leadscrew assemblies or drives are widely used to generate linear motion. And you can get this motion by turning either the screw or the nut. Three primary...

Learn more about plain or sleeve bearings which are replacing rolling-element bearings in a wide range of products including pumps, wind turbines, and equipment for agriculture and construction.

Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) has been around since the 1940s, yet it is unappreciated as a valuable way to stop bad designs from being made.

NIST engineers mixed a polymer with carbon black, a fine powder almost entirely made of elemental carbon, to create a compound that mimics the average electrical conductivity of the human body.