News tagged with structural design
Researchers create first custom designed protein crystal
Protein design is technique that is increasingly valuable to a variety of fields, from biochemistry to therapeutics to materials engineering. University of Pennsylvania chemists have taken this kind of design ...
Apr 25, 2012 |
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Rational design can improve hydrogen fuel cell efficiency
(PhysOrg.com) -- Hydrogen fuel cells, in which the chemical energy of hydrogen is converted into electricity, offer the potential for a wide variety of applications, especially in transportation and power ...
Feb 29, 2012 |
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Lessons from the Christchurch earthquake
(PhysOrg.com) -- A leading Infrastructure academic believes an assessment needs to be made of the level of "very rare" earthquake that needs to be considered in structural design, perhaps one with a 10,000 year return period ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 21, 2011 |
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Historic first images of rod photoreceptors in the living human eye
Scientists today reported that the tiny light-sensing cells known as rods have been clearly and directly imaged in the living eye for the first time. Using adaptive optics (AO), the same technology astronomers ...
Jun 08, 2011 |
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Designer drugs on the rise: INCB
Designer drugs, modified to get around tight controls, are being produced in growing numbers and at an ever-faster pace, drugs monitoring agency INCB warned in its annual report Wednesday.
Mar 02, 2011 |
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As earthquakes take their toll, engineers look at enhancing building designs
A next generation of design criteria for buildings located in geographic regions where earthquakes are known to occur, either rarely or frequently, is under development at Virginia Tech through a research ...
Dec 16, 2010 |
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Paris building to be warmed by commuters' body heat
(PhysOrg.com) -- Paris Habitat, owner of a low-income public housing project in Paris, is planning to use the excess body heat of commuters in a subway station beneath it to warm an apartment building.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 10, 2010 |
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Iowa State engineers design power structures that help keep the lights on
(PhysOrg.com) -- Iowa State University engineers are developing new and improved poles to carry electricity across the countryside. They say the new structures -- which can bend and deflect an extreme load ...
May 11, 2010 |
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Significant findings about protein architecture may aid in drug design, generation of nanomaterials
Researchers in Singapore are reporting this week that they have gleaned key insights into the architecture of a protein that controls iron levels in almost all organisms. Their study culminated in one of the first successful ...
Apr 09, 2010 |
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Offshore wind power and wave energy devices create artificial reefs
Offshore wind power and wave energy foundations can increase local abundances of fish and crabs. The reef-like constructions also favour for example blue mussels and barnacles. What's more, it is possible to increase or decrease ...
Jan 19, 2010 |
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Growing Europe's nanowires
(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed state-of-the-art nanowire 'growing' technology, opening the way for faster, smaller microchips and creating a promising new avenue of research and industrial ...
Dec 16, 2009 |
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Weather-sensitive architectural skins integrate form with function
Buildings typically provide shelter from the elements, but one Ryerson University researcher thinks structures ought to relate more to the environment instead. To this end, she has created architectural "skins," ...
Nov 06, 2009 |
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A full-sized California-style home made of bamboo
A new type of eco-friendly residential house made of bamboo now stands in Changsha, Hunan Province, China.
Apr 08, 2009 |
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Chips with everything
(PhysOrg.com) -- While the technology to make computer chips smaller and cheaper progresses each year, the fundamental structure of the chip - the computer architecture - has remained the same for decades. ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 24, 2009 |
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