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HEAVY-DUTY TRUCK ENGINE QUALITY IMPROVES AND SATISFACTION INCREASES FROM 2010
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif: 1 September 2011 — Heavy-duty truck engine quality has improved from 2010, after technology changes related to emissions standards revisions caused a spike in engine-related...
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COMPOSITE VS. CORROSION: BATTLING FOR MARKETSHARE
Article Posted: Composites Technology October 2011, Authored by: Michael LeGault Market trends and tighter budgets are helping to expand the use of composites to repair and replace corrosion-damaged...
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FORENSIC SCIENCE MAKES FOR LONGER-LIVING CHEVY CRUZE
Engineers perform post-mortems to enhance vehicle durability DETROIT, Oct. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — General Motors Corrosion Engineer Christa Cooper and her team know that rust never sleeps,...
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AIRBUS EXPECTS YEARS OF GRAPPLING WITH A380 CRACKS
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Airbus will need years to get past problems with wing cracks on its flagship A380 passenger jet, the executive vice president of programs at Airbus told a German magazine. “This...
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2012 TRENDS: DESIGN OF TURBINES FOR COST, AVAILABILITY AND RELIABILITY
Posted by: WindPowerEngineering.com By: Steven Bushong With larger, more powerful turbines coming online, requirements for pitch control are increasing. Experts say the wind-power industry is also...
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BETTER PRODUCTS THROUGH COMPUTATIONAL PROCESSING AND SIMULATION
Author: Carl D. Kolts, VP of Sales and Business Development, VEXTEC Corporation Every company manufacturing a commercial product is focused on two things – growing revenue and reducing costs. To some...
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STRUCTURAL DESIGN CONCEPTS: OVERVIEW OF SAFE LIFE AND DAMAGE TOLERANCE
Note: This post is the first in a series of blogs exploring industry-recognized structural design principles. This material originated in an internal white paper written by Dr. Robert Tryon, Chief...
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STRUCTURAL DESIGN CONCEPTS: SAFE LIFE DESIGN
The philosophy of safe life design is the preferred method for designing components for durable operation in the automotive industry. Under this method, the structure is operated at a stress far below...
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STRUCTURAL DESIGN CONCEPTS: DAMAGE TOLERANT DESIGN
The damage tolerance approach to design has been employed by the aerospace industry for decades. In contrast to the safe life design method, damage tolerance explicitly accounts the fatigue crack...
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STRUCTURAL DESIGN CONCEPTS: SAFE LIFE, DAMAGE TOLERANCE AND VEXTEC’S VIRTUAL...
Over the last few weeks, VEXTEC has explored the two main philosophies of modern structural design: safe life design and damage tolerant design. Today we share with you a summary of these methods,...
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