87 Matching Results

Search Results

Advanced search parameters have been applied.
in subjects: "Automobiles"  
Results: 1 - 24 next
open access

2001: A Texas Folklore Odyssey

Description: This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society "contains a sample of the research that members of the Society were doing at the turn of the millennium as represented at the 1998, 1999, and 2000 meetings." The volume covers "a wide variety of contemporary and historical topics," including baby lore, stories about notable women, stories about food and cooking, information about the Model T Ford, and more (inside front cover). The index begins on page 339.
Date: 2001
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Press
open access

Three-Dimensional Analysis of Voids in AM60B Magnesium Tensile Bars Using Computed Tomography Imagery

Description: In an effort to increase automobile fuel efficiency as well as decrease the output of harmful greenhouse gases, the automotive industry has recently shown increased interest in cast light metals such as magnesium alloys in an effort to increase weight savings. Currently several magnesium alloys such as AZ91 and AM60B are being used in structural applications for automobiles. However, these magnesium alloys are not as well characterized as other commonly used structural metals such as aluminum. … more
Date: May 1, 2001
Creator: Waters, A M
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Fuel cell systems for personal and portable power applications

Description: Fuel cells are devices that electrochemically convert fuel, usually hydrogen gas, to directly produce electricity. Fuel cells were initially developed for use in the space program to provide electricity and drinking water for astronauts. Fuel cells are under development for use in the automobile industry to power cars and buses with the advantage of lower emissions and higher efficiency than internal combustion engines. Fuel cells also have great potential to be used in portable consumer produc… more
Date: January 1, 2001
Creator: Fateen, S. A. (Shaheerah A.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Development of ceramic mixed potential sensors for automotive application

Description: Mixed potential sensors that utilize Gd{sub 0.2}Ce{sub 0.8}O{sub 2} electrolytes and patterned dense 1 {micro}m-thick LaMnO{sub 3} thin films were studied at 600 C and 1%O{sub 2}. The response to C{sub 3}H{sub 6} and CO of two different sensor configurations were studied continuously for 1000 hrs versus an air reference. Although two different current collection schemes and two different metal oxide electrode geometries were employed, the magnitude of the mixed potential generated by both senso… more
Date: January 1, 2001
Creator: Brasha, E. (Eric); Mukundan, R. (Rangachary); Brown, D. R. (David R.); Garzon, F. H. (Fernando H.) & Visser, J. (Jaco)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Mid- and Far-Infrared Reflection/Absorption Spectroscopy (IRAS) Studies of NO on Rh Single Crystal Surfaces

Description: The NO/CO reaction over Rh metal in automobile catalytic converters is critical to the control of emissions of these pollutant molecules. As part of a program to determine the elementary mechanism(s) of this reaction, we have been performing mid- and far-infrared reflection/absorption spectroscopic (IRAS) measurements of the adsorption and co-adsorption and co-adsorption of NO and CO on Rh single crystal surfaces. Of particular interest is the low-frequency range of the IRAS spectra where we ho… more
Date: February 1, 2001
Creator: Peden, Charles HF; He, Ting; Pilling, M.; Hirschmugl, Carol J. & Gardner, P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Losing weight to save lives: A review of the role of automobile weight and size in traffic fatalities

Description: Critics of higher fuel economy standards for vehicles have long argued that improving vehicle fuel economy will require reducing vehicle weight, and that would result in an increase in the number of fatalities from vehicle crashes. Several researchers have estimated that an across-the-board reduction of vehicle weight would reduce passenger safety (Evans 1991; Kahane 1997; U.S. GAO 1994). However, little research has been done on the relationship of vehicle size and fatality rates, independent … more
Date: July 1, 2001
Creator: Ross, Marc & Wenzel, Tom
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Development of Advanced Ceramic Manufacturing Technology

Description: Advanced structural ceramics are enabling materials for new transportation engine systems that have the potential for significantly reducing energy consumption and pollution in automobiles and heavy vehicles. Ceramic component reliability and performance have been demonstrated in previous U.S. DOE initiatives, but high manufacturing cost was recognized as a major barrier to commercialization. Norton Advanced Ceramics (NAC), a division of Saint-Gobain Industrial Ceramics, Inc. (SGIC), was select… more
Date: April 5, 2001
Creator: Pujari, V. K.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Phase II CRADA ORNL99-0568 Report : Developing Transmission-Less Inverter Drive Systems for Axial-Gap Permanent magnet Accessory and Traction Motors and Generators

Description: Researchers of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNLs) Power Electronics and Electric Machine Research Center (PEEMRC) collaborated with Visual Computing Systems (VCS) to develop an electric axial-gap permanent magnet (PM) motor controlled by a self-sensing inverter for driving vehicle accessories such as power steering, air conditioning, and brakes. VCS designed an 8 kW motor based on their Segmented Electromagnetic Array (SEMA) technology. ORNL designed a 10 kW inverter to fit within the … more
Date: August 6, 2001
Creator: McKeever, J.W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Energy savings and structural changes in the U.S. economy: Evidence from disaggregated data using decomposition techniques

Description: During the period 1973 to 1985, the U.S. economy saved energy in virtually every sector. Much of this period of energy saving was also marked by a significant drop in the ratio of energy use to GDP. However, since 1985 there has been a slowdown in the rate of energy saving, as key energy intensities (space heating, automobile driving, etc.) have declined less rapidly since 1985 than before. This paper examines delivered (or final) energy consumption trends from the early 1970s to 1994 and provi… more
Date: December 1, 2001
Creator: Murtishaw, Scott & Schipper, Lee
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

OVERVIEW OF EMERGING CLEAN DIESEL ENGINE TECHNOLOGY

Description: Diesel engines are the most realistic technology to achieve a major improvement in fuel economy in the next decade. In the US light truck market, i.e. Sport Utility Vehicles , pick-up trucks and mini-vans, diesel engines can more than double the fuel economy of similarly rated spark ignition (SI) gasoline engines currently in these vehicles. These new diesel engines are comparable to the SI engines in noise levels and 0 to 60 mph acceleration. They no longer have the traditional ''diesel smell.… more
Date: August 5, 2001
Creator: Fairbanks, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

In-Process Detection of Weld Defects Using Laser-Based Ultrasonic Lamb Waves

Description: Laser-based ultrasonic (LBU) measurement shows great promise for on-line monitoring of weld quality in tailor-welded blanks. Tailor-welded blanks are steel blanks made from plates of differing thickness and/or properties butt-welded together; they are used in automobile manufacturing to produce body, frame, and closure panels. LBU uses a pulsed laser to generate the ultrasound and a continuous wave (CW) laser interferometer to detect the ultrasound at the point of interrogation to perform ultra… more
Date: January 4, 2001
Creator: Kercel, S. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Well-to-tank energy use and greenhouse gas emissions of transportation fuels vol. 1, 2, 3.

Description: There are differing yet strongly held views among the various ''stakeholders'' in the advanced fuel/propulsion system debate. In order for the introduction of advanced technology vehicles and their associated fuels to be successful, it seems clear that four important stakeholders must view their introduction as a ''win'': (1) Society, (2) Automobile manufacturers and their key suppliers, (3) Fuel providers and their key suppliers, and (4)Auto and energy company customers. If all four of these s… more
Date: August 23, 2001
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
captions transcript

[News Clip: Handicap parking]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC 5 television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.
Date: November 9, 2001, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 43 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Handicap parking]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC 5 television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.
Date: November 20, 2001, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 33 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Stop speeding Pkg]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC 5 television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.
Date: May 30, 2001, 4:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 40 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Bedford hit run]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC 5 television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.
Date: October 21, 2001, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 50 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
open access

Alternative Fuel News: Official Publication of the Clean Cities Network and the Alternative Fuels Data Center, Vol. 5, No. 3

Description: A quarterly magazine with articles on alternative fuel school buses, the market growth of biodiesel fuel, National AFV Day 2002, model year 2002 alternative fuel passenger cars and light trucks, the Michelin Challenge Bibendum road rally, and advanced technology vehicles at Robins Air Force Base, the Top Ten Clean Cities coalitions for 2000, and AFVs on college campuses.
Date: November 1, 2001
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

EUVE Observations of Nonmagnetic Cataclysmic Variables

Description: The authors summarize EUVE's contribution to the study of the boundary layer emission of high accretion-rate nonmagnetic cataclysmic variables, especially the dwarf novae SS Cyg, U Gem, VW Hyi, and OY Car in outburst. They discuss the optical and EUV light curves of dwarf nova outbursts, the quasi-coherent oscillations of the EUV flux of SS Cyg, the EUV spectra of dwarf novae, and the future of EUV observations of cataclysmic variables.
Date: September 5, 2001
Creator: Mauche, C W
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
captions transcript

[News Clip: Ford Settlement]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a law suit filed against Ford and Firestone regarding their faulty tires.
Date: January 8, 2001, 4:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 39 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
open access

Energy Absorption in Chopped Carbon Fiber Compression Molded Composites

Description: In passenger vehicles the ability to absorb energy due to impact and be survivable for the occupant is called the ''crashworthiness'' of the structure. To identify and quantify the energy absorbing mechanisms in candidate automotive composite materials, test methodologies were developed for conducting progressive crush tests on composite plate specimens. The test method development and experimental set-up focused on isolating the damage modes associated with the frond formation that occurs in d… more
Date: July 20, 2001
Creator: Starbuck, J. Michael; Jacob, George C. & Simunovic, Srdan
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Denton Police car at ILD event]

Description: Photograph of a Denton Police Department car at an Instructional Leadership Development (ILD) event hosted by UNT's Center for Public Service. The vehicle can be seen in a grass field at a park, facing to the right of the camera. Police officers and other event attendees are standing in the grass and on a cement basketball court around the vehicle, conversing in groups.
Date: March 2001
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[David Duncan and Daughters, 2001]

Description: Photograph of David Duncan and his daughters posing in front of a car port next to a brick house. There are two cars parked underneath the carport. David leans against the car farthest left and crosses his arms. One of his daughters stands to his right, holding her younger sister in her arms. A large tree stands in the background. [2001, Dallas, TX]
Date: 2001
Creator: Doherty, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Crash]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a violent crash in the highway.
Date: January 31, 2001
Duration: 38 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
Back to Top of Screen