Mechanical engineers at Duke University have developed solid building blocks whose mechanical properties can ...

To find the weak link of the structural stiffness is important to improve machine tool stiffness. However, how to overcome the static deformation with difficulty acquisition is a difficult problem in ...

Robots are usually built from materials with fixed properties. Once a robot is assembled, its stiffness, flexibility and ...

(Reuters) - The angular design of Tesla's Cybertruck has safety experts concerned the electric pickup truck's stiff stainless-steel exoskeleton could hurt pedestrians and cyclists and damage other ...

Machine learning redesigns microscopic web sensors to be five times more flexible than nature-inspired versions, enabling detection of masses as small as trillionths of a gram.

What makes spider silk so extraordinarily strong and elastic at the same time? This was the focus of recent investigations ...