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How outdoor cobots can survive extreme weather and mechanical stress

Peace engineering is difficult to measure but critical to do

Roughly 10 percent of the world's energy is used for cooling, with much of the necessary electricity generated by fossil fuels. Companies need to make AC much more efficient—as soon as possible.

The Structures Technical Discipline Team (TDT) was involved in numerous investigations this past year, but composites, fracture mechanics, and pressure

A team of scientists from Ames National Laboratory and Texas A&M University developed a new way to predict metal ductility. This quantum-mechanics-based approach fills a need for an inexpensive, efficient, high-throughput way to predict ductility. The team demonstrated its effectiveness on refractory multi-principal-element alloys. These are materials of interest for use in high-temperature conditions, however,…

Materials with superior mechanical strengths are crucial to many areas of modern industries and the scientific enterprise by providing cutting and drilling tools, structural components, protective coatings, and abrasives that find wide applications. Solid solution strengthening is a well-established method to enhance hardness of metals by introducing solute atoms to create local distortions in the crystal lattice,…

A new building standard can help engineers prevent the worst.

Bidirectional DC Power Supplies released by Chroma include features for Battery Characterization, Performance Validation, and Battery Simulation for EV and renewable energy applications.

Completed in 2022 in Lumbisi, Ecuador. Images by BICUBIK . A house designed at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a program and concept based on what homes had already experienced in the second...

Researchers have developed a new chemical process that is not limited to wind turbine blades but works on many different so-called fiber-reinforced epoxy composites, including some materials that are reinforced with especially costly carbon fibers.

I was recently asked why it takes a seemingly long time to introduce new parts to the racecar as part of an aerodynamics upgrade package during the season. After all, F1 boasts of pushing design an…

The fifth/sixth generation (5G/6G) mobile networks support the growth of many applications, such as new entertainment experiences, intelligent autonomous mobility, revolutionizing healthcare, and propelling manufacturing into a new era of smart connected factories. Take advantage of this antenna system Multiphysics and Design Reliability presentation for 5G/6G.

Belt Technologies, Inc., is introducing its new TruPulleyTM line of products, which all work to monitor or regulate the tension, pace or tracking of a metal belt, providing next-level innovation to manufacturers across a limitless range of applications.

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These tires are robust, durable, airless, and has been tested in several NASA space missions.

Computer-based neural networks can learn to do tasks. A new type of material, called a mechanical neural network, applies similar ideas to a physical structure.

When a metal is stressed far below its yield strength at elevated temperatures, a process known as creep can occur. Creep, the time-dependent deformation of materials, is responsible for a great number of component failures at high temperatures. Scientists know that eliminating grain boundaries in materials is a useful way of resisting high-temperature creep in metals. However, a team of researchers has developed a…

We propose the use of solar exoskeletons, an integrated building system that combines material efficiency in structural load transfer with passive sol…

Researchers at The University of Tokyo have shown that for amorphous materials, cyclic material fatigue can begin to fracture at the same level of stress as fractures due to constant loading. By using computer simulations, the team was able to distinguish four distinct failure modes. This work could improve the lifetime of industrial machinery.

It was one of those happy accidents of science. Northeastern professor Randall Erb and Ph.D. student Jason Bice were working on a product for a university client—and wound up with an entirely new class of material.