A carbon-fiber skeleton of Tinkertoy-like building blocks is 10 times as stiff as structures of similar densities. And because the framework is made of mostly identical pieces, broken parts can be ...

Natural materials such as wood and bone owe their high strength-to-weight ratio not just to the materials from which they're made, but to the way in which those materials are structured within them.

Researchers of the Structural Engineering Laboratory, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology have developed a new concept for strengthening steel in ...

Materials scientists lead a project to turn strong, light and compressible schwarzites from theory to reality with three-dimensional printers. The resulting materials share their properties from the ...

Hoping to bring the exquisite order and strength of the Eiffel Tower’s architecture to ultralight materials, researchers have created metal lattices with a framework that is strong and stiff, yet ...

A structure is an object made from many parts. Buildings and bridges are examples of structures. When making a structure, it’s important to use simple ways to make it strong. Buildings, bridges, ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — In part, the Portland Bureau of Transportation justified its decision to have three small businesses shutter their outdoor seating structures because of complaints from the ...

(Nanowerk News) Rice University engineers are using 3-D printers to turn structures that have until now existed primarily in theory into strong, light and durable materials with complex, repeating ...