Ford has announced that its 2017 Ford GT supercar can reach a top speed of 216 mph – the highest ever for any Ford production vehicle. Back in December, Ford announced that the first street-legal ...

The Deployable Tower Assembly is made of graphite-epoxy composite material to provide the strength needed to deal with the extreme environmental conditions, including the temperature changes, that ...

Perhaps now more than ever, university research is critical. Inquisitive researchers on campuses across the U.S. are working on projects related to materials, technologies, processes and applications ...

German company RUF developed the Rodeo concept, an all-wheel-drive carbon fiber safari vehicle based on the classic Porsche 911 safari rally car. Alois Ruf, Jr. has a long relationship with the ...

Cyclists competing in the Tour de France can achieve speeds upwards of 60 mph. Skids and crashes at these speeds can cause severe abrasions to cyclists, even preventing them from completing the race.

Lead by their advisor, Antonio Nanni, professor and chair of the Department of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering at UM, the students are installing a state of the art monitoring system ...

According to a recent press release from Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, the Air Force Small Business Innovation/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) has provided PROOF Research’s Advanced ...

The pressure applied to the tooth surface of a gear results in tensile stress on the bottom of the tooth. Researchers added carbon fibers to run through each tooth of a gear wheel to reduce tensile ...

According to AMRC, most robots use “serial linkage technology,” where each additional axis is mounted on the previous one, with an ‘end effector’– which holds the tools the robot uses – on the final ...

The result was the transportation industry’s first refrigerated trailer made with molded structural composites. Three months ago, Wabash announced it would begin a limited production run of 100 units ...

The pavilions’ seating and counter space were printed with Techmer’s bio-based PLA compound that is reinforced with bamboo fibers. These fibers were printed in DOE’s Manufacturing Demonstration ...

Each bike comes with LeEco’s Android 6.0-powered BikeOS system displayed on a 4” touchscreen and is powered by a 6000mAh rechargeable lithium-ion battery. The system provides turn-by-turn navigation ...