Pistons play the ultimate role in an engine, but despite that, it's still hard to fully wrap your head around all the forces involved. There are plenty of moving parts in an internal combustion engine ...

A piston is anything but a slug. It's asked to withstand the cylinder pressures generated by 200,000,000 power strokes (in its 100,000-mile lifetime), slide in bores with a minimal amount of ...

If internal combustion is a war, then pistons are quite literally on the frontlines. Converting reciprocating energy into rotating force means that the four-stroke process tries to both eject the ...

Tenneco. has been granted a patent for a piston designed for internal combustion engines. The piston features a crown and skirt with friction-reducing coatings and strategically arranged depressions, ...