Detonation: A violent explosion; also called combustion knock. This usually occurs near the end of the combustion process when highly compressed, high-temperature end gases spontaneously ignite, ...

When your car starts making a metallic knocking sound under the hood, you'd assume it could only be one thing: the engine. However, there are two common culprits, and they're definitely not the same.

Detonation is a dirty word around hot rods. Nobody likes to talk about it because when it happens, it usually means some lapse of attention during engine or vehicle assembly has occurred. By the time ...

Engineers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have developed a reliable testing methodology to study stochastic ...