A crankshaft may experience irregular rotational speed patterns caused by a combustion engine’s discrete firing process. These excite components of the driveshaft, which causes rotational vibrations ...

Mercedes and Red Bull remain in the clear, as Italian reports on power unit cheating are rejected. An Italian newspaper ...

From left: Thayer, Keller and Patiashivili pose with the Formula SAE car. As multi-year members of the Formula SAE student group, mechanical engineering and mechanics majors Jon Keller and Juba ...

Thanks to a close collaboration between the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), SR Technics and the Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA), Switzerland is setting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Language is an imperfect medium, but it's what we've got, so let's go with it. Determining the swept volume of inventor Felix ...

Sometimes we forget how many things we can do with a simple oscilloscope. In this video [Ben] uses one that Tektronix lent him to measure his DeLorean engine RPM. By checking the car main ~12V voltage ...

In September, Sensor Developments Inc. (SDI) released the 01251 series of infrared dynamometer torque sensors. While inquiring about this new series, I quizzed Rick West, electronics design engineer ...

When it comes to making horsepower, the thought that bigger is better has driven the motorsports hobby for years. In the late 1950s, the first 348 ci big-block Chevrolet spawned an infamous family of ...