Engineering
The cargo ship collision that destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on March 26, 2024, is raising questions about just how much engineers can do to prevent such catastrophes from occurring in the future. Here, ...
Mar 30, 2024
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Engineering
A family purchased an upscale home in the suburbs of New York City with an open-floor plan, but they weren't happy with the floor vibration in certain rooms. Homes built with longer spans and fewer partitions are structurally ...
Jan 26, 2024
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Business
Writing in the International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, a team from China has revealed a novel approach to boost privacy for cross-border e-commerce users. Na Wang, Feng Gao, and Ji Zhang of Changchun ...
Jan 17, 2024
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Engineering
Nick Francis, a Senior University Teacher at the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, has co-authored, with Esther Norton, a new research article on educating civil engineers in the twenty-first century and proposed ...
Jan 8, 2024
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Engineering
Amid the rubble of large-sale earthquake, war or other disaster—and as aging buildings and infrastructure are replaced—mountains of concrete are often taken to landfill or pounded into rubble for roads.
Dec 5, 2023
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Engineering
Chemical injection is a process that enhances sand strength and its water-sealing capacity, making sandy soil suitable for various applications in construction. However, a unified understanding of how this process results ...
Nov 22, 2023
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Engineering
Scientists from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the IMDEA Materiales Institute have developed a new experimental technique in fragmentation tests to evaluate the energy absorption capacity in the event of ...
Nov 15, 2023
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Engineering
Skoltech researchers have used an inexpensive 3D-printing technique to demonstrate the manufacturing of a ceramic part of a highly complex shape, which could be used in fuel cells, a promising technology for efficient and ...
Oct 26, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
The semiconductor industry today is working to respond to a threefold mandate: increasing computing power, decreasing chip sizes and managing power in densely packed circuits.
Sep 19, 2023
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Robotics
Researchers who created a soft robot that could navigate simple mazes without human or computer direction have now built on that work, creating a "brainless" soft robot that can navigate more complex and dynamic environments. ...
Sep 8, 2023
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