The mechanical strength and toughness of engineering materials are often mutually exclusive, posing challenges for material design and selection. To address this, a research team from The Hong Kong ...

As light as possible and as strong as possible at the same time. These are the requirements for modern lightweight materials, such as those used in aircraft construction and the automotive industry. A ...

This article will go over some basic background about tensile strength of material and then discuss historic material strength improvement to understand what industrial production of new carbon ...

Knots are known for boosting the strength of materials, from the tiniest twists of DNA to (potentially) the very fabric of the universe. Now, Caltech engineers have developed a new material consisting ...

Scientists were able to fabricate a pure form of glass and coat specialized pieces of DNA with it to create a material that was not only stronger than steel, but incredibly lightweight. Working on the ...

Wind Engineering, Vol. 40, No. 3 (June 2016), pp. 189-198 (10 pages) Abstract In this article, the fatigue strength in composite materials of wind turbine blades under dry–wet conditions is predicted ...

Researchers have developed high-performance nano-architected materials that have the strength of carbon steel but the lightness of Styrofoam. Developed by researchers at the University of Toronto’s ...

Scientists at Yale University have done what materials scientists have been trying to do for decades - create a material that boasts the look, strength and durability of metal that can be molded into ...