Understanding how soft materials fail under stress is critical for solving engineering challenges as disparate as pharmaceutical technology and landslide prevention. A new study linking a spectrum of ...

Researchers recently announced a major theoretical and experimental breakthrough that allows scientists to predict, with an unprecedented precision, when a soft material will crack and fail. The ...

The ability to fail with minimum destruction. For example, a disk drive can be built to automatically park the heads when power fails. Although it does not correct the problem, it minimizes ...

Semiconductors are inherently reliable. The tight controls during manufacturing, the refined processes, the rigorous testing and verification all result in a pretty impressive array of reliable ...

WATERLOO - Hot summer days, soft serve ice cream and…coliform bacteria? All three go together, at least according to recent inspections of soft-serve ice cream machines by the Black Hawk County Health ...

A new study takes a step forward in clarifying how soft materials, both natural and synthetic, fail under stress. The work by researchers at the University of Illinois Urban-Champaign addresses a wide ...