A new study examines structural buckling as a control method for solar sails, detailing kirigami cuts, simulations, and experiments to adjust spacecraft orientation efficiently.

An engineer has designed a model to guide better design of thin-walled structures, like planes, cars and submersibles, to avoid catastrophe like sudden collapse due to buckling. A University of ...

Bio-polymers play an important role in many critical processes in organisms ranging from providing structural rigidity to motility. In this experiment we examine the buckling properties of rigid ...

Linear finite-element analysis does not provide enough information about buckling to make correct design decisions, especially when designing lightweight components ...

Stefan Hutzler and Denis Weaire are in the School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Their postgraduate student Ali Irannezhad currently performs his experiments in his home in Tehran, Iran.

They say good things come in small packages; sometimes so do exciting new discoveries. From research into things that are one-billionth of a meter in size, near limitless engineering applications ...