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    World's Largest AC Motor

    I took a tour of the Langley National Transonic Facility (NTF) last year, where they mentioned the fan drive motor was one of the largest in the world. A bit of Googling turned up this press release: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/news/releases/1997/Dec97/97_133.html 135,000 hp, built by...
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    Electric Linear Actuator Vendor Needed

    Moog: http://www.polysci.com/specialdevices/actuator05.html MPC Products Corp. (disclaimer, I work for this company): http://mpcproducts.com/linear.asp
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    Permedur 49 or Hiperco 50 bars pricing

    I can't claim to know the source of the info, but my boss once handed me a torn, taped, and xeroxed chart that has relative costs of the soft magnetic materials we typically use. It goes like this: MATERIAL TYPE RELATIVE COST Low Carbon Steel 0.5 Silicon Steel...
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    bolt or helicoil pull out strength in G10

    G10 is a glass cloth / epoxy laminated composite specified by NEMA, IIRC. It is often used as a structural element that can double as an electrical insulator, as when used for a PCB substrate.
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    Electronic soldering for spacecrafts

    Try NASA-STD-8739.3 -- Soldered Electrical Connections. As for materials selection, MSFC-HDBK-527 -- Materials Selection List for Space Flight Hardware, might be of help. sean
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    Magnetically activated Polymers

    I knew a grad student whose research was on magnetically active fiber-reinforced composites. This was designed more as a health monitoring function for composite structures, but it might be something along the lines of what you're looking for. Search for: Magnetostrictive Tagged Composites...
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    Search for rebar tensile test 2,800kN

    http://www.tam.uiuc.edu/directory/services/testing/facility.html http://www.tam.uiuc.edu/directory/services/testing/tests.html While located at a University, the facility is available for testing of commercial products. While I was a student in the building I witnessed the machine in action...
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