Purdue University civil engineers have developed innovative materials that can dissipate energy caused by bending, compression, torque, and tensile stresses without sustaining permanent damage. These ...

(Nanowerk News) Wearable medical devices, such as the soft exoskeletons that provide support for stroke patients or controlled drug delivery patches, have to be made of materials that can adapt ...

A research team has developed soft composite systems with highly programmable, asymmetric mechanical responses. By integrating "shear-jamming transitions" into compliant polymeric solids, this ...

The field of additive manufacturing is undergoing a profound transformation as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) become integral to the ...

Avoiding damage makes the material reusable and improves human safety and structure durability in products across several industrial sectors. Pablo Zavattieri, the Jerry M. and Lynda T. Engelhardt ...

As technology evolves, so must the materials that comprise it. There is an unceasing quest to create new forms of intelligent, active matter that can create its own energy, sense, compute, and ...

As a result, the simulation-based development of intelligent material combinations for so-called self-sufficient fibre composites shall be available. Actuators and sensors are already integrated into ...

“Even though the compaction of soil is a process [that] began hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago,” Luke Sevcik product application and training specialist for Wacker Neuson, guesstimates, “the ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University civil engineering researchers have developed patent-pending intelligent architected materials that can dissipate energy caused by bending, compression, torque ...

Pablo Zavattieri, the Jerry M. and Lynda T. Engelhardt professor in civil engineering, lifts an aircraft runway mat made with new intelligent architected materials developed at Purdue University ...