A crankshaft may experience irregular rotational speed patterns caused by a combustion engine’s discrete firing process. These excite components of the driveshaft, which causes rotational vibrations ...

It all really comes down to habit. Once people get used to doing things one way — like using the word "horsepower" to refer to an engine's output — it can be exceedingly difficult to get them to ...

From left: Thayer, Keller and Patiashivili pose with the Formula SAE car. As multi-year members of the Formula SAE student group, mechanical engineering and mechanics majors Jon Keller and Juba ...

Language is an imperfect medium, but it's what we've got, so let's go with it. Determining the swept volume of inventor Felix Wankel's rotary engine can generate more arguments than claiming what a GT ...

In September, Sensor Developments Inc. (SDI) released the 01251 series of infrared dynamometer torque sensors. While inquiring about this new series, I quizzed Rick West, electronics design engineer ...

It's a common affliction. Around town, your car runs fine and can fry the tires at will, but at highway cruising speeds above 65 mph, you feel a slight vibration in the seat of your pants and through ...

If you want to dyno test your tuner car, you can probably find a couple of good facilities in any nearby major city. If you want to do similar testing at a smaller scale, though, you might find it’s ...