Strength. Rigidity. Dependability. The ability to bear weight without buckling. These are all things that we look for when we build a mechanical structure. And in today’s Retrotechtacular we take a ...

Keywords: Earthquake engineering, seismic isolation, deformable rolling bearings, low-cost isolation for lightweight structures, triaxial shake table testing, and isolator behavior modeling. Abstract: ...

Granular metamaterials made of staple-shaped entangled particles interlock into load-bearing structures without adhesive, ...

Materials engineers have developed the ability to manipulate structure and matter at the nanoscale for solid-state alloys ...