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Kelvin–Voigt contact model
The Kelvin–Voigt contact model is a linear viscoelastic impact model representing contact force as a spring and damper in parallel; it remains a baseline despite known physical inconsistencies.
Kelvinator
Kelvinator was an American home appliance manufacturer founded in Detroit in 1916, named for Lord Kelvin and best known for pioneering the self-contained electric refrigerator.
Kemeny Commission
The Kemeny Commission, formally the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island, investigated the 1979 nuclear accident and delivered 44 recommendations that reshaped US nuclear regulation.
Kemer bridge
Kemer bridge: a Roman segmental arch bridge over the Xanthos River near ancient Xanthos, Lycia, Turkey; surviving 29 m ramp with three arches, two with a one-meter rise; site at Atlıdere.
KEMET
KEMET is an American manufacturer of electronic components, best known for tantalum, ceramic, and film capacitors. Founded in 1919, it has been owned by Yageo Corporation since 2020.
Kemmerer Power Station
Kemmerer Power Station is a nuclear plant under construction near Kemmerer, Wyoming, housing the first commercial Natrium sodium-cooled fast reactor, a 345-MWe TerraPower design targeted for 2030.
Kempegowda International Airport (ಕೆಂಪೇಗೌಡ ಅಂತರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ವಿಮಾನ ನಿಲ್ದಾಣ)
Kempegowda International Airport, also called BLR Airport, is the international airport serving Bengaluru, India, located at Devanahalli. It opened in 2008 as Bengaluru International Airport.
Kemper Project
The Kemper Project was a lignite gasification power plant in Kemper County, Mississippi, built by Mississippi Power; cost overruns ended gasification, and it now runs on natural gas as Plant Ratcliffe.
Ken (doll)
Ken, fully Kenneth Sean Carson, is a fashion doll introduced by Mattel in 1961 as Barbie's boyfriend, named after Kenneth Handler, son of Mattel's founders.
Ken Austin (industrial engineer)
Ken Austin (1931–2019) was an American industrial engineer who co-founded dental equipment maker A-dec in Newberg, Oregon, in 1964, holding 40 U.S. patents and joining the National Academy of Engineering in 1999.
Ken Goldberg
Ken Goldberg is a roboticist, artist, and entrepreneur who is a distinguished professor at UC Berkeley, directs the AUTOLAB, and co-founded Ambi Robotics and Jacobi Robotics.
Ken Hakuta
Ken Hakuta, known to children as Dr. Fad, is a Korean-born American entrepreneur who made a fortune marketing the Wacky WallWalker toy in the 1980s.
Ken Kennedy (computer scientist)
Ken Kennedy (Kenneth W. Kennedy, 1945–2007) was an American computer scientist at Rice University whose compiler optimization research helped ordinary scientists use supercomputers; he founded Rice's computer science department.
Ken Mattingly
Ken Mattingly, also known as Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II, was an American NASA astronaut and Navy rear admiral who flew on Apollo 16 and commanded two shuttle missions.
Ken Thompson
Ken Thompson (Kenneth Lane Thompson), born in 1943, is an American computer scientist who designed Unix at Bell Labs, created the B language, and co-created Go.
Ken Xie
Ken Xie, born 1963, is a Chinese-American engineer and entrepreneur who founded three network security companies, including NetScreen and Fortinet, and has served as Fortinet's CEO since 2000.
Kenai LNG Terminal
The Kenai LNG Terminal is a liquefied natural gas facility at Nikiski, Alaska, and the first US plant to export LNG, shipping to Japan from 1969 until 2015.
Kenai Oil and Gas Field
The Kenai Oil and Gas Field, usually called the Kenai Gas Field, is a large natural gas field on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska, discovered in 1959.
Kendal power station
Kendal power station is a coal-fired power station in Mpumalanga, South Africa, owned by Eskom. Its six units give 4,116 MW, the largest capacity in Eskom's fleet.
Kendall County generation facility
Kendall County generation facility, also reported as Kendall Power Station, is a 1,256 MW natural gas-fired combined cycle power plant in Minooka, Illinois, in the Vistra/Dynegy fleet since 2002.
Kendryte K210
The Kendryte K210 is a system-on-chip for edge artificial intelligence developed by the Chinese semiconductor company Canaan and released in 2018, pairing two 64-bit RISC-V cores with a dedicated neural network accelerator.
KenGen
KenGen (Kenya Electricity Generating Company) is Kenya's largest electricity generator, producing about 60 percent of the country's power from hydro, geothermal, wind, and thermal plants.
Kenichi Soga
Kenichi Soga is a geotechnical engineer, Distinguished Professor at UC Berkeley and director of its Berkeley Center for Smart Infrastructure, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.
Kenji Hata
Kenji Hata (畠賢治) is a Japanese materials scientist at Japan's AIST in Tsukuba, known for super growth, a water-assisted chemical vapor deposition method for carbon nanotubes reported in 2004.
Kenli 10-1 Oil Field
Kenli 10-1 Oil Field is an offshore oil field in the southern Bohai Sea, China, operated by CNOOC with peak output of about 36,000 barrels per day from 2015.
Kenli 16-1 Oil Field
Kenli 16-1 Oil Field (垦利16-1油田) is an offshore oil field in China's southern Bohai Sea with 730 million barrels of reserves, discovered in 2014 and producing since 2021.
Kenmore (brand)
Kenmore is an American household appliance brand created by Sears, whose name first appeared on a 1913 sewing machine and which once accounted for 25 percent of major appliances sold in the United States.
Kennametal
Kennametal is an American industrial technology company headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, founded by metallurgist Philip M. McKenna in Latrobe in 1938, that makes tungsten carbide cutting tools and wear-resistant components.
Kennedy Compound
The Kennedy Compound is a six-acre, three-house family estate on Irving and Marchant Avenues in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, begun by Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. in 1926-1928, listed on the National Register in 1972, and now partly owned by the Edward M. Kennedy Institute.
Kennedy Expressway
The Kennedy Expressway, also known as the John F. Kennedy Expressway, is a 16-mile segment of Interstates 90 and 94 in Chicago running from the Loop toward O'Hare International Airport.