Shortly after 1 a.m. on June 24,2021, South Florida witnessed the inconceivable. Half of Champlain Towers South, a 12-story, 39-year-old oceanfront condo in Surfside, consisting of interlocking ...
NIST's long-awaited findings conclude design flaws, construction deviations and corrosion left Champlain Towers South ...
Abstract: Owing to their tremendous adaptability to free-form objects, soft grippers with fin-ray structure have a wide range of applications. However, kinetostatics analysis and contact sensing for ...
An oil rig in the Gulf Of Mexico as seen from Gulf Shores, Alabama. (Jim Julien/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The U.S. Air Force is looking to repurpose offshore oil rigs into landing ...
In a recent article published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers developed a standardized file format for atomic force microscopy (AFM) data that would harmonize AFM outputs with the ...
Abstract: In this study, we propose an analysis method to evaluate the relationship between the body shape and joint loads of a snake-like robot when a load is applied to the head. A snake-like robot ...
To illustrate how you can simulate abrupt structural discontinuities, consider a cantilever beam with a joint or splice simulated with a rotational spring. For this simple example, there are generally ...
"The implication for planetary defense is that small, rubble-pile asteroids, like Dimorphos, are very efficient to deflect, and the kinetic impactor technique would be an appropriate deflection ...
Metallography is the science of using microscopic techniques to examine sections or polished surfaces of metallic materials. It provides information about a metallic component’s composition, ...