NOTE: click on the links in the image sources and throughout this blog to see more articles on bionic design and biomimicry. Evolutionary Light Structure Engineering (ELiSE) is a systemized approach ...

Design professionals now have a valuable new resource on blast resistant structures with AISC Design Guide No. 26, Design of Blast Resistant Structures, co-authored by Ramon Gilsanz of Gilsanz Murray ...

Phononic band-gap materials prevent elastic waves in certain frequency ranges from propagating, and they may therefore be used to generate frequency filters, as beam splitters, as sound or vibration ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Earthquake-resistant design of structures has grown into a true multi-disciplinary field of engineering wherein many exciting developments are ...

Princeton engineers are twisting, stretching and creasing structures to create a new type of origami, one that changes its ...

Opterus’ carbon fiber composite booms, like the one shown here, are designed with high strain composites that allow them to fold up for compact storage on a spacecraft. In space, the boom will be ...