The Alliance for European Flax Linen and Hemp highlights several projects in which flax and hemp fibers are being used.

Frank Leeb demystifies why residential and commercial structures that employ engineered lightweight truss systems are so prone to collapse when a fire erupts. Example of the versatility of the ...

These types of materials are often used to create soft mechanical metamaterials which, in turn, are used for lightweight, ...

The research field 'Lightweight Structures for Space Applications' has a clear focus: to consider the whole system in order to find new solutions for every detail. Spaceflight places many diverse ...

Keywords: Earthquake engineering, seismic isolation, deformable rolling bearings, low-cost isolation for lightweight structures, triaxial shake table testing, and isolator behavior modeling. Abstract: ...

The research team, led by Lucio Blandini, head of the Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design (ILEK) at the University of Stuttgart, utilized microbial biomineralization ...

TRB Lightweight Structures and Toyota Tsusho America have announced a joint venture to produce high-volume composite parts for the automotive industry in North America. The new venture has opened a ...