Mechanical Engineering Magazine Select Articles: Recent submissions
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Environmental Barrier Coatings for Gas Turbine Ceramic Matrix Composites
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Variable Cycle Engine Concepts and Technologies: Bridging Efficiency and Performance
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Abstract. Variable Cycle Engines (VCEs), also known as Adaptive Cycle Engines, represent a major advancement in propulsion technology, offering the ability to optimise performance across diverse flight conditions. Unlike ... -
Fission within Fusion
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2026)Abstract. Despite decades of effort and billions in investment, there is not yet a fusion technology that has achieved sustained commercial net energy output. The conventional approach to fusion involves doughnut-shaped ... -
From Ships to Shores
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2026)Abstract. Ship-to-shore gantry cranes are a cornerstone of global port operations, responsible for moving goods on and off massive container ships. But the fundamental A-frame design has remained the same for more than 70 ... -
Starting at Safety
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Football, hockey, soccer and many other sports could use better equipment to help prevent unnecessary injuries. Soccer, basketball, field hockey, and downhill skiing, for instance, come with a high rate of tears to the ... -
Frontiers of Robotic Surgery
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Robotic systems are used increasingly to perform surgeries, especially laparoscopic surgeries. A robotic system eliminates many of the disadvantages of laparoscopic surgeries while preserving the advantages. It restores ... -
Starting at Safety
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Football, hockey, soccer and many other sports could use better equipment to help prevent unnecessary injuries. Soccer, basketball, field hockey, and downhill skiing, for instance, come with a high rate of tears to the ... -
Frontiers of Robotic Surgery
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Robotic systems are used increasingly to perform surgeries, especially laparoscopic surgeries. A robotic system eliminates many of the disadvantages of laparoscopic surgeries while preserving the advantages. It restores ... -
Collaborations that Forge the Future
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 5/18/2023 )A recent research initiative promoted with federal funding provides an excellent example of how ASME continues to push the boundary toward cleaner, more efficient transportation. -
New Horizons for Geothermal Energy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The geothermal heat resource is not limited the way fuel or iron or other materials are. But the low efficiency of geothermal power systems is unsatisfying and contributes to often-poor economics. To improve efficiency, ... -
War Dogs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)As robots become more advanced and more autonomous, they will be asked to do tasks that humans need done, but don’t want to do themselves. Unfortunately, in some cases, those tasks may include going to war. Ghost Robotics ... -
What the Home of the Future is Missing Today
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)A few household robots are on the market today. But, none of those could be confused with Rosie the Robot, the muliply capable robot on The Jetsons. That raises the question: As technology advances, what will it take for ... -
Silicon Continent
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)While agriculture and natural resources have been the main exports for Sub-Saharan Africa, investment in high tech and digital technologies is beginning to build. Across the continent, bets on high-tech manufacturing are ... -
Gaining Altitude
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Annual surveys of the gas turbine industry began in 1999. Over that time, the industry as a whole has seen steady growth with two large anomalies, including the plunge produced by the COVID-19 pandemic. In both the zoomed ... -
The Case for Waste to Energy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)There is a better way of handling MSW that is not or cannot be recycled: thermal conversion, also called waste to energy. These facilities feed waste into a combustion chamber with air and incinerate it. The heat released ... -
Supply Chain Kinks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)GM, Ford, and other automakers are chasing Tesla in the manufacture and marketing of electric vehicles. In turn this is sparking an upheaval the auto industry has not seen since Henry Ford’s Model T, which introduced ... -
Manufacturing and the Great Resignation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The stress test of the COVID-19 pandemic uncovered vulnerabilities in the global supply chain, and subsequent shortages indicate they may not be displaying the robustness needed to cope with the increased level of economic ... -
Ripple Effect
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)As we enter the third year of the COVID era, it is crucial that policymakers and manufacturers revisit the medical supply chain. We all need to better understand how the Defense Production Act can distort the supply chain ... -
Built for Speed
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The Drone Racing League holds contests between pilots flying UAVs through obstacle courses. The league's aspirations are more than just providing exhilarating races, however. It is working to innovate drone technology at ... -
Climate of Optimism
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Expressions of optimism in the world's ability to tackle climate change often meet disbelief. This energy expert lays out the case for why we wil succeed against climate change, and do it faster than most people anticipate.