Brittle materials, including geological rocks and advanced ceramics, exhibit distinctly rate‐dependent failure when subjected to rapid loading. Under high strain‐rate conditions, these materials can ...

Material failure was either the cause of or contributing factor in more than half of the serious safety incidents involving the US military’s fleet of Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotors in recent ...

Graphite is a key structural component in some of the world's oldest nuclear reactors and many of the next-generation designs being built today. But it also condenses and swells in response to ...

You've seen the movie scene: dilapidated skyscrapers, collapsed bridges, and empty, shell-like cars in a post-apocalyptic city. While Hollywood imagines fictional causes for this decay, in reality, ...

A team of researchers has successfully predicted abnormal grain growth in simulated polycrystalline materials for the first time -- a development that could lead to the creation of stronger, more ...