An open-section steel member (e.g., I-section), subjected to bending around its major axis, can suddenly lose stability and move laterally and rotate about its longitudinal axis. This phenomenon, ...

NO ARM DAY WORKOUT is complete without a solid biceps pump. The big arm muscles are one of the most popular points of focus for mass-obsessed gym bros, and for good reason. The biceps take up a prime ...

The bristled wings of miniature insects suggest an evolutionary advantage over membranous wings at small sizes, yet a quantitative understanding of this advantage has been limited due to the lack of ...

Adaptive structures have great potential to meet the growing demand for energy efficiency in buildings and engineering structures. While some structures adapt to varying loads by a small change in ...

THE ANTENNA. This crucial component of any radio transmitting or receiving system has a history that actually predates the invention of radio itself. The first antennas were used by Princeton ...

The complex geometries of lightweight structures can easily be modeled with modern CAD systems that use NURBS. Isogeometric B-Rep Analysis (IBRA) adopts the NURBS geometries along with their topology ...