Tensegrity structures are an impressive demonstration of how to achieve mechanical stability through tensile forces. Since the topic is currently trending it was probably only a matter of time before ...

Catastrophic collapse of materials and structures is the inevitable consequence of a chain reaction of locally confined damage—from solid ceramics that snap after the development of a small crack to ...

Much like sphere packing, crystalline materials can be similarly described via periodic packing of cylinders in 3D space. In this instance, the cylinders represented rods of strongly bonded atoms or ...

Researchers have developed a method for optimizing the initial tension of strings in tensegrity structures as well as a second technique to maximize the strength and minimize the weight of the rods ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Princeton researchers combined two disciplines to help designers create unique shapes. (CREDIT: Aaron Nathans) A termite mound ...

Alice Agogino is a mechanical engineering professor at the University of California at Berkeley, and she and her lab are among a group of engineers that are designing what might be the next generation ...

These LEGO “tensegrity” structures utilize the forces of tension and compression in a way that doesn’t seem like it should be physically possible. Prepare for brain-exploding dark magic of the highest ...

Structures in which compression materials (pipes) are connected by tensile members (wires)It is coined by Tension (tension) and Integrity (integration)TensegrityI call it. A researcher at the Georgia ...

Have you ever seen a skeleton held together with wire in a classroom or at a museum? What would happen if you removed the wire? All of the bones would fall into a heap on the floor! In reality, there ...

Engineers describe the creation of a new class of mechanical metamaterials that delocalize deformations to prevent failure. They did so by turning to tensegrity, a century-old design principle in ...