Shape morphing technologies are significant in soft robotic applications. To this end, we introduce a new shape morphing approach using pneumatic torsion strips, inspired by the shape of a Möbius ...

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Most people probably don’t think about springs until one kinks up or snaps, but most of the world’s springs are pretty crucial. The ones that aren’t go by the name Slinky. We all use and encounter ...

I HAVE shown 1 that glass rods with normally damaged surfaces, and subjected to sustained loading, fracture in equal times when subjected to numerically equal prior principal stresses, in bending, ...