Insights Under Pressure

As the world continues to become more automated, the struggle for design engineers is to find new methods to obtain actionable data on how their product or device is performing in different environments, and what can be done to improve it. Insights Under Pressure provides inspiration for product developers to consider how capturing pressure data can create new opportunities for product differentiation and market advancement.

This post wraps up our four-part interview series with our own Pressure and Temperature Mapping expert, Evan Griffith. Our conversation was based on Evan's recent live webinar on improving battery safety and performance through pressure and temperature mapping. Throughout this series, we’ve explored...

Part 3 of our “Impactful Insights” Interview Series with Tekscan’s Evan Griffith In Part 1, we explored how real-time pressure mapping helps engineers visualize internal force distribution during battery testing. Part 2 dove into stack pressure and its impact on SEI layer formation. Now, in the...

Part 2 of our “Impactful Insights” Interview Series with Tekscan’s Evan Griffith In Part 1 of our interview, Tekscan Product Manager Evan Griffith shared how pressure mapping gives engineers a real-time view of internal battery dynamics. Today, we go deeper into one of the most important and often...

Part 1 of our “Impactful Insights” Interview Series with Tekscan’s Evan Griffith As battery manufacturers race to improve energy density, safety, and performance, mechanical forces inside the cell are getting more attention. In this new interview series, we speak with Evan Griffith, Product Manager...

Temperature is one of the most common measurements in everyday life and is familiar to everyone. In scientific, industrial, and engineering fields, accurate measurement of surface temperature is essential for effective monitoring, diagnostics, and process control. A variety of technologies have been...

Industry: Automotive / Tire Testing Application: Dynamic Tire Contact Patch Analysis under Shear Forces Partner: Calspan What Happens to Tire Contact at the Edge of Performance? At high speeds and under extreme lateral loads, tire behavior becomes complex – and often unpredictable. Calspan, a...

Tekscan offers over 200 standard pressure mapping sensors, which can be a bit intimidating if you're just familiarizing yourself with our technology and its capabilities. Over time, however, we've noticed that certain of our sensor designs tend to lend themselves better to a broader range of general...

As battery technologies evolve to meet growing demands for electric vehicles, energy storage, and portable electronics, effective monitoring becomes crucial for improving performance and ensuring safety. Among the various aspects of battery monitoring, pressure measurement is often overlooked...

Testing experimental battery designs and chemical compositions is not without risk. Innovators in this field know that finding the sweet spot of performance, safety, and lifespan is a delicate balance. Optimizing charge and discharge cycles of a new electrochemical battery design is a true...

What is a pressure sensor? The term pressure sensor includes a wide variety of different mechanical devices for distinct kinds of pressure measurement. Most pressure sensors (commonly referred to as pressure transducers) often have a diaphragm interfacing with pipes or tubes to measure the pressure...