How the Bloodhound jet car works This video combines live action with animation to show how the Bloodhound works. The Bloodhound SSC is a British supersonic car powered by a jet engine, a rocket, and a Cosworth CA2010 Formula 1 V8 gasoline engine auxiliary power unit. Still under development, its goal is to attain a […]
The CLEO: 2014 co-sponsors (APS, IEEE Photonics Society, OSA) and Laser Focus World announced Daylight Solutions, San Diego, Calif., as the winner of this year’s CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Award. The award recognizes the company “for the development of Spero, the first laser-based infrared microscope that delivers high-resolution (< 5 µm) images over a wide field of view in a compact, broadly tunable, turnkey instrument with rapid ‘live mode' imaging at 30 fps."
Using an ultrafast laser system, a group in Physical and Life Sciences at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, Calif., subjected iron to extremely rapid dynamic compression and showed that the transition from one crystal structure to another can take place in less than 100 trillionths of a second after the compression begins.
Al-Fe Heat Treating, Fort Wayne, Ind., has added glycol quenching to its list of Nadcap-accredited aluminum heat treat services at its plant in Wadsworth, Ohio.
Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology IPT, Germany, is developing Selective Laser Melting technology to build aerospace components via additive manufacturing.
