Engineers are working on intelligent materials that can diminish vibrations and extract power from the environment. These electro-active elastomers could dampen annoying vibrations in a car, for ...

NASA engineers have come up with a dual shock absorber solution to the problem of excessive vibrations with the new Ares 1 rocket that will launch the agency's Orion space shuttle replacement.

Research on a new class of nanostructured materials used to reduce vibrations in mechanical equipment and electronic devices, being developed by a team of scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic ...

have been wrestling with for the past six months. Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., became concerned last October after simulations suggested that vibrations ...

The SpaceflightNow.com article “ Proposals made to solve Ares 1 rocket vibration worry ” states, “NASA hopes to resolve concern about high vibrations in its new Ares 1 rocket by using a shock absorber ...

A two-tiered system of shock absorbers can quell dangerous vibration problems on NASA’s future Ares I rocket, agency officials announced on Tuesday. NASA aims to use Ares I to carry the Orion crew ...

As with windscreen wiper blades, motorists often fail to replace shock absorbers with the frequency that they should. In Europe, for example, it is thought that around one in four cars require new ...

NASA officials said Thursday that they are developing special shock absorbers for a new moonship to stop potentially fatal vibrations. The design of the space shocks, theoretically similar to the ...

Shock absorbers that generate electricity, which are being developed by Cambridge, MA-based Levant Power, can lower fuel consumption by 1.5 to 6 percent, depending on the vehicle and driving ...

Most people would prefer a mattress to a brick wall as a brick wall is rigid and does not absorb shocks or vibrations well, whereas a mattress is soft and works well as a shock absorber. A buckled ...

NASA announced on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 that it has worked out a solution to the excessive-vibration problem in its yet-to-be developed Ares 1 launch vehicle. The Ares 1 rocket will take astronauts ...