American Engineering Group LLC

Finite Element Analysis of Vehicle and Tire has become a very important aspect of a tire design and failure analysis to most Tire companies. Tire modeling with ABAQUS is a very complicated process involving complex materials like hyperelastic rubber and textile reinforcements, large model size, prolonged simulation time and various convergence issues. This white paper intends to help in understanding the challenges in tire analysis and several tips and tricks that makes a difference in the quality of the results and processing time. AEG hopes that this article will be useful to ABAQUS users working in the field of tire design and analysis. A general tire has the following major tire components Tread Belt Region Inner Liner Sidewall Region Inner Carcass Region Bead Filler Region Apex/Chafer Region Beads Reinforcements Nylon Cap Ply Steel Belts Carcass Ply Constructing the structure of the tire and modeling of each component is the first step into the analysis. AEG foun...

MEMS Resources on WEB Compiled by AEG Here is a comprehensive list of MEMS resources that proves to be helpful time to time. A number of portals specializes in MEMS ,some of them a listed below http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEMS Any exploration in the internet starts from the wikipedia. The description of MEMS here is not very thorough but it serves the purpose. The links associated to these documents are useful. http://www.memsnet.org/mems/ This portal is entirely dedicated to the MEMS community. It gives a basic overview about MEMS and Nanotechnology and provides a comprehensive idea about the micro fabrication processes. This site provides a link to the founder company https://www.mems-exchange.org/ , which is a contract foundry service. The job board and the discussion groups is the main attraction of this site whereas the news and event sections are regularly update which makes this site very attractive. While browsing this site, don’t overlook a menu on the ...

AEG Carbon Fiber-Polyurethane Solid Tire Military Tire-WHEEL (MTW) ASSEMBLY FOR Future tactical and combat vehicles is placing emphasis on handling, traction, and cornering tire performance for the light trucks. In order to meet these high performance standards, solid tire with aspect ratio lower than 0.35 have been developed by American Engineering Group (AEG), Akron , Ohio Tire Size: LT225/35R19 Rim Width: 7.0 inches Tread Width: 7.6inches Overall Diameter: 25.0 inches Speed rating:80mph AEG aims to eliminate tire blowouts with its remarkable integrated Carbon Fiber Ring-Wheel “MTW” assembly, a solid one-piece wheel-and-tread system that could soon enter manufacturing. The MTW's rim is bonded to soft polyurethane foam that provides the shock-absorbing property of a traditional pneumatic tire. The circumference of the soft polyurethane foam layer is bonded to a Carbon Fiber ring along with tire tread. By varying the thickness and geometry of the polyurethane soft layer, this u...

AEG Carbon Fiber-Elastomer Composite Bipolar Plate for PEM Fuel Cells Fuel cells constitute one of the most promising sources of environmental friendly energy for the future. These systems produce electrical energy by converting the chemical energy stored in a fuel, such as hydrogen or methanol, through oxidation-reduction reactions. A proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell is a stack of electrochemical cell systems (Figure) placed in series. Since the electrons must transit from the anode of one cell to the cathode of the next cell, electrical conductivity through the plate is a main requirement. Another important requirement is the low permeability to the reacting gases or to ions. The bipolar plates should remain chemically inert for an extended period of time. The bipolar plates also should be lightweight and easily manufactured using mass-production technologies. Cost reduction is the most critical issue for automotive industry to achieve the practical use of proton exchange me...

Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH) Analysis by American Engineering Group (AEG) NVH analysis provides essential benefits towards designing vehicles for ride comfort and quietness, an increasingly competitive advantage in today's global automotive market. The design of a car body structure is decisive in order to gain favorable vibration and acoustic behavior of vehicles. The body structure is the most significant transfer path for road-excited and engine-excited vibrations. The body panel vibrations are then radiated into the vehicle cavity, where they are perceived as audible noise. Apart from the audible noise, which is transferred into the cavity, structural vibrations of the body are perceived as an annoyance as well. AEG Product Design and engineering solutions have a dedicated and focused NVH team with core competency in solving complicated design problems pertaining to automotive and aerospace applications with HPC (High Performance Computing : SGI-Altix/16 GB RAM/1500 G...

Fuel Cell Nanocomposite Double Lip Seal From American Engineering Group ( AEG ) Nanocomposite double lip seal is a new nanotechnology based “over molded” seal for fuel cells from American Engineering Group , Akron , OH . This unique “double lip” seal has a primary and a secondary sealing surface. This EP terpolymer based elastomer formulation has a nano-blowing agent which helps to maintain high “long-term” sealing force retention in a fuel cell thermal cycling operational environment with vibration loads. This new nano technology based elastomer seal show very less “electrode poisoning” in fuel cell system. This sealing technology is adaptable to various planar fuel cell designs. This acid resistant, high temperature stable over-molded plastic seal has a nano-blowing agent which activates in steam based curing. Compared to other elastomers, this nano-composite elastomer has excellent resistance to creep and fatigue with good flexibility and clear film. AEG’s proprietary steam p...

Maintenance-Free Self-Lubricating Sliding Bearings from American Engineering Group(AEG) The present day bearing materials pose an enormous challenge because, frequently, zero maintenance is expected under severe to extreme conditions as well as under maximum loads. The constant pressure on costs additionally calls for increasing uptime of machinery and equipment and uncompromising standards of operational reliability. Maintenance-free, self-lubricating, heavy duty friction materials produced for bearings of the automotive industry offers bearing solutions guaranteed to operate reliably and safely over long term. The self-lubricating composite sliding material consisting of a steel backing and a sliding layer. It is manufactured by using a continuous hot rolling sintering technology. This increases the reliability and service lifetime of the sliding plates significantly. These sliding materials can be used with any sliding surfaces (e.g., plain sliding surface, sliding layer with clean ...