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April 5, 2012 Machine Design

Lightening the Load With Modern Steels
Newest Sailor: A Firefighting Robot
High Pressue Challenge Pump-Seal Designs
Internal Permanent Magnets Give Motor Design a New Look

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  • Apr. 5, 2012
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    A new way to bag weevils

    Twenty five years ago, a group led by Larry Murdock, a Purdue University professor of insect physiology, devised packaging for cowpeas, a grain grown by subsistence farmers...More
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    Clutch helps keep century-old clock ticking

    Tower clocks throughout the U.S. have been retrofit by the Balzer Family Clock Works with electric motors that rewind or reset the 55-lb weights...More
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    The Navy develops firefighting robots

    Fire onboard a Navy ship at sea can be dangerous because of all the fuel and munitions present...More
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    Robotic cheetah sets speed record for legged robots

    Cheetah, a four-legged robot designed at Boston Dynamics, Waltham, Mass., recently set a new world record for legged robots, 18 mph...More
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    Is that toy poisonous? New standard tells all

    North America’s first and only third-party “sustainable” toy standard, UL 172, was recently established by UL Environment in Northbrook Ill...More
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    Two new nuclear plants being built in the U.S.

    For the first time since 1978, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved the construction of two nuclear plants...More
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    Vortex gun blows smoke rings

    Engineers at the Battelle Memorial Institute are patenting a special vortex gun they developed...More
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    Looking Back 4/05/2012

    Hide your picnic baskets! The newest addition to the Cybug family of robots from Mondo-tronic’s Robot Store, San Rafael, Calif., is a giant Queen Ant...More
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    Ladders are still a safety issue

    Strange as it may sound, I am still regularly called to investigate accidents involving ladders. In the workplace, OSHA, in 2011...More
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    Letters 4/05/2012

    Almost without exception, readers responding to our recent piece on engineering unions think that engineers and unions don't mix...More
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    Holder lets smartphones take pictures of microscopic images

    The SkyLight from Tess Bakke and Andy Miller of Oakland, Calif., is a mechanical stage that turns a smartphone into a digital microscope camera...More
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    Software Products 4/05/2012

    The 2012 releases of Patran and MSC Fatigue provide engineers with significant modeling productivity, extended nonlinear and failure event simulations, and improved capabilities for predicting product fatigue life...More
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    3D mouse lets users “fly” through designs

    Using a 3D mouse can make a huge productivity difference. Most of the 3D mice from 3Dconnexion, Boston, are aimed at professional users who design models with CAD or CAM software...More

Scanning for Ideas

Backtalk

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    Backtalk 4/05/2012

    A former University of California at Berkeley quarterback set a new world record in the world of competitive paper-airplane flying...More

Vantage Point

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    Avoiding the PITFALLS of export control

    Everyone from President Obama to financial gurus and business leaders say exports are one way to lift America out of its economic malaise...More

Features

  • Apr. 5, 2012
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    Breaking the 20K BARRIER

    Seals alone won't take high-pressure pumps to the next level...More
  • Apr. 5, 2012
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    How’s your MOTOR IQ?

    Think you know electric motors? Check your knowledge against these devices...More
  • Apr. 5, 2012
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    Steel is up to the AUTOMOTIVE CHALLENGE

    There’s a reason steel has remained the dominant material used in cars and light trucks. The same reasons will let steel survive the CAFE crunch of higher fuel economy...More
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