Now in Transportation
A Streetcar to Inspire
Once the nation's ubiquitous urban conveyance, electrified streetcar lines all but disappeared during the car-crazy Eisenhower era. But now, modern streetcars are riding the rails again. In cities across the U.S., streetcars are inspiring a renewed appreciation of their value in today's public transportation mix.
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Intelligent monitoring of railroad tracks can create more efficient maintenance strategies, helping predict when the tracks will experience mechanical or electric failures. Intelligent monitoring involves gathering rail stress, switch power, and other data in real-time, establishing baseline limits, and creating algorithms to compare and alert before a failure occurs.
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William Lasher, professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State University, reveals what it takes to be a part of the profession of boat designing. From utilizing finite element analysis to overcoming the frustration of solving one problem, only to find out it creates another, this article will show you the challenges behind the glamour of high-speed boat races and cargo ships traveling the world.
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To constitute a Technical Group of the ASME in accordance with the Society's Constitution, By-Laws, and Rules in the fields of environmental control of air pollution, noise, solid wastes, and other environmental contaminants, and the processing of wastes for recovery of resources, reuse, and disposal; and of transportation, transport systems, and vehicles traversing the Earth's land, atmosphere, water, and extraterrestrial domain.
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