Blast tube tests at Sandia simulate shock wave conditions nuclear weapons could face
You can learn a lot from a blast tube. You can learn more when you couple blast experiments with computer modeling.
You can learn a lot from a blast tube. You can learn more when you couple blast experiments with computer modeling.
Space Exploration
Sep 10, 2018
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Sandia National Laboratories has sent a mock B61-12 nuclear weapon speeding down the labs' 10,000-foot rocket sled track to slam nose-first into a steel and concrete wall in a spectacular test that mimicked a high-speed accident. ...
Engineering
Oct 5, 2016
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In a dimly lit room, next to a supersonic jet engine test rig, three Stanford engineering graduate students sat around a whiskey bottle.
Analytical Chemistry
Jun 24, 2016
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Developing medical devices takes a lot of time: large parts of the control systems can be designed and tested only once the hardware is ready. Using the hardware-in-the-loop method, which Fraunhofer researchers have transferred ...
Engineering
Apr 29, 2016
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A solar-powered plane made a third successful test flight in the United Arab Emirates on Monday ahead of a planned round-the-world tour to promote alternative energy.
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 2, 2015
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Siemens is supplying automation technology for the longest and one of the most cutting-edge sample processing lines in any clinical laboratory. The line, or automation track, 200 meters long, in Marlborough, Massachusetts, ...
Engineering
Dec 19, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Lockheed Martin has announced that it intends to build a new kind of extraction and payload delivery craft that can be flown remotely or at times autonomously. The craft is to resemble a helicopter, but will ...
The United Kingdom is preparing to convert the London 2012 Olympics anti-doping center, which conducted more than 6,000 drug tests on athletes during the Olympic and Paralympic Games, into a facility that could help revolutionize ...
Other
Sep 5, 2012
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Two of the four berths at an EU-funded grid-connected offshore marine-energy test site have now been filled. Wave Hub, located off the Cornish coast in the United Kingdom, is the largest test site of its type in the world. ...
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 15, 2012
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(AP) -- Viewsonic's new tablet has a unique solution for consumers who are still clinging to Microsoft's Windows, even as Google's Android operating system gains traction: It offers both.
Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 27, 2011
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