Ahead of his 2018 stage rally race plans, Block takes his Escort Group A rally car to Hungry Valley, California for testing. The 1991 Ford Escort Cosworth Group A rally car has actually been used to ...

AWPA Standard, E10, Standard Method of Testing Wood Preservatives by Laboratory Soil-Block Cultures. Also, ASTM D1413 and WDMA TM-1. The soil block decay test is a highly standardized means for ...

The Ford Focus RS RX is one mean rally racing machine. The new race car has already sent teammates Ken Block and Andreas Bakkerud into the finals in three out of four events, and there are still ...

In my November 2024 column, I began discussing the building block approach for crashworthiness testing of composite structures. This approach features a multistep process for designing composite ...

HALT and HASS testing are conducted in environmental chambers where high or low temperature, vibration, and other stress conditions are applied to the DUTs. In many cases, additional stresses not ...

With the Space Launch System (SLS) family heading towards the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) phase, engineers at two NASA centers have conducted wind tunnel testing on scales models of the Heavy Lift ...

Hot rod builds a mouse trap and tries to catch a rat. Originally published in the August 1998 issue of Hot Rod magazine. To celebrate HOT ROD's 75th anniversary, we teamed up with CASTROL GTX to bring ...

There were many variations on the 427 big-block theme, with the designation of the engine's RPO option codes making up the lexicon. Two versions of the 427 debut in the Corvette lineup for 1966, with ...

In my two previous columns, I discussed the lower and intermediate levels of the building block approach for crashworthiness testing and analysis of composite structures. I focused on the commercial ...