Identifying and tracking vehicles is of major importance for today’s logistics. The common non-electronic solutions are both easy to forge and difficult to use over distances. Combining the successful technologies of digital signatures and the Global Positioning System allows the secure identification of any car and checking its location. Both types of information can improve the fleet manageme...

Crack path selection in mixed mode fracture tests of adhesive bonds, including those with locally weakened interfaces Adhesives offer many advantages over discrete mechanical fasteners such as bolts and rivets. By eliminating the holes or other mechanical fasteners, components may often be made thinner that will save weight, time, and costs. Because adhesives are often applied continuously and ...

In order to save resources and prevent global warming, there has been a present need in recent years to reduce the volume of CO2 emission and it improves the fuel consumption of automobiles. The trend in the automotive applications is to improve efficiency and to reduce volume and weight. Under these circumstances, the mechanical parts in the automobile industry are being replaced by electronic...

An experimental system, AYPA, for automatic Yellow Pages assistance is described. The system, which operates in the domain of automobiles, automobile parts, and related objects, reads the user's request in simple English, analyzes it and represents it in terms of the system's conceptual primitives. From this, the system tries to figure out the intent of the request and formulate a Yellow Pages ...

Automobiles are required to be even lighter for further achieving environmental protection through fuel economy improvement, as well as safety feature enhancement and drivability improvement. Automotive suspensions are also required to reduce their weight and thus more aluminum is being adopted. Aluminum forgings, in particular, are often applied because of their significant weight reduction ef...