Piezoelectric power, or electricity produced in response to applied mechanical stress, keeps popping up on our radar. Recently, we looked at a French city’s plan to implant piezoelectric microsensors ...

Containing both the sensor and airborne amplifier in onesmall package, the Model 7257AT hermetically sealed piezoelectric accelerometerfrom Endevco is intended for vibration measurements on ...

The vision of Industry 4.0 is already becoming a successful reality in numerous industrial applications nowadays, in sectors such as automobile manufacturing, medical technology, and electrical ...

A particularly flexible nano-indentation system by Micro Materials Ltd. offers a large variety of methods for materials characterization, including nano-indentation, nano-impact and nano-scratch and ...

This video shows PI’s non-sensitive piezo drives specifically developed for magnetic resonance therapy. Piezo drives are the only drives which are not affected by strong magnetic fields, and also they ...

One hard disk recently failed in the EEVBlog laboratory’s NAS. Keeping true to his catch phrase, [Dave “Tear it Apart” Jones] opened it up and gave us an inside tour of a modern hard disk drive. There ...

Testing new structures and materials is an everyday challenge to ensure high quality and a low level of maintenance. Mechanical test benches (fatigue, wear, vibrations) based on hydraulic, pneumatic ...