Roberto Ballarini, University of Houston Thomas and Laura Hsu Professor and department chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is leading the effort to predict the detrimental effects of ...

Cylindrical shell structures are widely employed across engineering sectors such as aerospace, marine, and civil construction, owing to their high strength-to-weight ratios and efficiency in material ...

Composite lattice structures have emerged as an indispensable solution in high‐performance engineering, particularly in aerospace and civil applications. These structures combine advanced composite ...

The NABUCCO project aims to develop radically new concepts of adaptive and buckling-driven composite structures for next generation aircraft. In aeronautics, buckling is generally avoided because it ...

Keywords: Three dimensional (3D) models. Inelastic buckling. Displacement. Constitutive models. Rotation. Zipper frames. State space approach. Geometric ...

Negative stiffness honeycombs are a hexagonal cell structure that turns soft under pressure, but then resumes its resiliency without internal breakage. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share ...

BUFFALO – Roofs began to creak and collapse and homeowners struggled to clear waist-high drifts atop their houses Thursday as another storm brought the Buffalo area’s three-day snowfall total to an ...