the lightweight construction elements are about 50 µm long, wide, and high. "Nature also uses open-pore, non-massive structures for carrying loads," Oliver Kraft, KIT, explains. Examples are wood ...

But lightweight construction offers more than just energy ... provides a better shield against electrical radiation. Further examples include the panoramic heads for camera tripods and reels ...

One issue in particular is the current debate about whether lightweight wood construction is responsible for excessive firefighter deaths and injury. For example, are concrete tilt-ups that fall ...

Lightweight construction materials are popular: aluminum is used in the bodywork of cars, for example, and aircraft fuselages already consist in large part of light carbon composite materials.

With these innovative solutions and new construction methods, we have a whole new vocabulary that this podcast is going to decipher for you! On this episode we discuss how lightweight construction ...

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and it kicks off the year with an issue about Lightweight Construction. Never failing to impress, this issue left me wanting to know more about the topic’s history and its future. For example ...

Sustainable construction practices have ... benefits during and after construction. As an example, expanded shale, clay and slate (ESCS) lightweight aggregates are fired in rotary kilns and ...

ENGEL Austria GmbH, ThermHex Waben GmbH, Edevis GmbH and the Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWS have produced a storage compartment flap for a truck interior in ...