Vehicle equipment

Vehicle equipment

Industry: Automotive

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substrate

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Basic surface on which a material adheres — for example, paint or laminate.

supercharger

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

An air compressor designed to force air, under pressure, into an engine's cylinders.

superplastic forming (SPF)

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

A metal-forming process that uses the extreme extendability of certain metal alloys to form complex parts, in fewer stages and with minimum waste. The process uses precisely controlled rates of ...

technology benchmarking

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Assessing technology by testing and evaluating representative components, subsystems, and complete vehicle systems to (a) determine attributes and (b) compare them with program objectives and ...

technology validation

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Confirming that technical targets for a given technology have been met.

technology-validation test-bed vehicle

Rolling platform with which integrated experimental components and subsystems can be operated on either a chassis dynamometer or test track. This tool can help validate whether new technologies are ...