In the ideal scenario of a bicycle wheel on a frictionless axle, there is no external torque acting on the wheel once it is set in motion. This is why it continues to spin at a constant angular ...

As we move away from large power plants with massive rotating turbogenerators, there will be problems with maintaining lock-step grid system frequency stability. Wind turbines have much less ...

Why Are Carbon Ceramic Brakes So Expensive, And Are They Worth It? High performance, track-capable vehicles are often found paired with carbon ceramic rotors. While the rotors tend to be more ...

A component’s moment of inertia is its resistance to rotational acceleration. A: They’re relevant whenever an apparatus must accelerate and response is crucial. They predict the performance of shafts ...

Micropolar continuum mechanics extends the classical description of deformable materials by incorporating additional rotational degrees of freedom and couple stresses at the microscale. This framework ...

Linamar has been granted a patent for an innovative engine balance shaft designed for internal combustion engines. The shaft features a hydroformed hollow tube that reduces mass and rotational inertia ...

(Phys.org)—Newton's gravitational constant, G, has been measured about a dozen times over the last 40 years, but the results have varied by much more than would be expected due to random and ...