Imagine a liquid that flows freely one moment, then stiffens into a near-solid the next, and then can switch back with a ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

Shear forces and bending moments are resultants which are used to conveniently represent the internal forces that develop within a beam when external loads are acting on it.

Scientists uncover why petting your cat can be shocking After centuries, researchers have an answer for how rubbing a surface — say for example, a loved kitty — creates electrical current ...

Building Reading time: 1 minute Different types of beams are used in the construction of buildings and structures. These are horizontal structural elements that withstand vertical loads, shear forces, ...

During impact, the deformation of the screen squeezes the fluid through a smaller and smaller gap. It’s harder to push a shear-thickening fluid through a narrower space, so whilst it stops the impact, ...

Phiala Shanahan, a nuclear and particle physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, leads a team that computes the behavior of quarks and gluons starting from the equations of the strong ...

Aspects of the general Vlasov theory are examined separately as applied to a thin-walled channel section cantilever beam under free-end end loading. In particular, the flexural bending and shear that ...

Bending moment is a crucial concept in structural analysis and engineering. It is the measure of the force applied to a structural element or beam that causes it to bend. Calculating the bending ...