Microchips created by machining channels with a width and depth of 1 mm or less on a glass substrate measuring several centimeters square and integrating chemical and biochemical systems are expected ...

In January 2004, a U.S. power plant employee was struck by metal fragments and killed as the result of an electric actuator failure. Before the failure, a wedge gate valve on a boiler feedwater line ...

VALENCIA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--February 17, 2022-- ITT Aerospace Controls, a subsidiary of ITT Inc., (NYSE: ITT), announces its expanded and redesigned aircraft component line with five new valves ...

Piezo elements are electromechanical transducers that convert mechanical forces (pressure, tensile stress or acceleration) into voltages. The inverse piezoelectric effect, precisely the opposite, ...

To address the persistent threat of mechanical failure, innovations in engineering design have led to the development of ...