Engineers describe the creation of a new class of mechanical metamaterials that delocalize deformations to prevent failure. They did so by turning to tensegrity, a century-old design principle in ...

Irvine, Calif., March 11, 2021 - Catastrophic collapse of materials and structures is the inevitable consequence of a chain reaction of locally confined damage - from solid ceramics that snap after ...

Researchers at the University of Salerno and the University of Naples Federico II in Italy have developed a new PV system design for small-to-medium-sized sports stadiums. The system is based on the ...

(A) Perching behavior of biological and artificial systems. (B) Operational principle of our robotic gripper. (C) Energy variation of MTRG during operation. (D) Comparison of switching frequency f and ...

Keywords: Earthquake engineering, cable dynamics; nonlinear dynamics; flexible bus conductors; earthquake excitation; tensegrity; complementarity Abstract: The use of cables may be seen in different ...

(Nanowerk News) Catastrophic collapse of materials and structures is the inevitable consequence of a chain reaction of locally confined damage – from solid ceramics that snap after the development of ...