A new form of lightweight, impact-resistant plastic-based 'honeycomb' structures which can sense when they have been damaged could find use in new forms of 'smart' prosthetics and medical implants, ...

In this interview, AZoM talks to Lyndon Newman, Lead Engineer for Rail at TRB Lightweight Structures, about the use of TRB's composites in the Rail industry. Could you give us an overview of TRB ...

Lightweight lattice structures, like trusses, have been used for centuries—think of trestle bridges and the Eiffel Tower as common examples—due to their low density and high specific strength and ...

Materials scientists lead a project to turn strong, light and compressible schwarzites from theory to reality with three-dimensional printers. The resulting materials share their properties from the ...

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved funding for a Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) that will be tasked with developing “intelligent production technologies for lightweight plastic ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — What do bones and 3D-printed buildings have in common? They both have columns and beams on the inside that determine how long they last. Now, the discovery of how a “beam” in ...

SNAPSHOT: The filament-wound composite vessel, designed and manufactured using Taniq's TaniqWind Pro software, successfully flew aboard the EX-4C rocket at the European Rocketry Challenge in late 2025 ...

image: MIT researchers used kirigami, the art of Japanese paper cutting and folding, to develop ultrastrong, lightweight materials that have tunable mechanical properties, like stiffness and ...

With the completion of the project TOAST (ThermOplast Additive Manufacturing STrukturen), Premium AEROTEC present the impressive potential which a modern hybrid design of carbon fibre reinforced ...