News tagged with integral bridges

Engineers research effects of heat expansion on economically efficient bridge design (w/ Video)

Kansas State University researchers are studying the effects of integral bridge expansion resulting from heat to make these types of bridges a more viable alternative.

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Electronic tattoo monitors brain, heart and muscles (w/ video)

Imagine if there were electronics able to prevent epileptic seizures before they happen. Or electronics that could be placed on the surface of a beating heart to monitor its functions. The problem is that ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

North Carolina becomes home of White Spaces network

(PhysOrg.com) -- America’s first commercial “TV White Spaces Network” was launched this week in Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina. Wilmington, as the first U.S. city to shift from ...

Technology / Telecom

created Jan 29, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

New fracture analysis plan would change bridge fabrication, inspection

One size does not fit all. By adding the word "not", this now completely revised adage rings true for at least one civil engineer.

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New study shows how integrated institutions can lead diverse populations to cooperate in rebuilding countries

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the most pressing issues in world affairs today is state building: how countries can construct stable, inclusive governments in which a variety of religious and ethnic groups coexist.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A new visualization method makes research more organized and efficient

The National Science Foundation- (NSF) funded Action Science Explorer (ASE) allows users to simultaneously search through thousands of academic papers, using a visualization method that determines how papers ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Spain's digital gender gap is larger than European average

Researchers at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) have compared internet use and frequency in Spain with the rest of the 31 European countries. Their results suggest that Spanish women use the internet ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New reports identify impacts of climate change on world's highest mountains

Findings from the most comprehensive assessment to date on climate change, snow and glacier melt in Asia's mountainous Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region -- site of Mount Everest and many of the world's tallest peaks -- highlight ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 04, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 7

Giant piezoelectric effect to improve MEMS devices

Researchers in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Materials Research Institute at Penn State are part of a multidisciplinary team of researchers from universities and national laboratories ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers demonstrate fully printed carbon nanotube transistor circuits for displays

Since the invention of liquid crystal displays in the mid-1960s, display electronics have undergone rapid transformation. Recently developed organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have shown several advantages over LCDs, including ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Researchers solve a protein complex's molecular structure to explain its role in gene silencing

A cell's genome maintains its integrity by organizing some of its regions into a super-compressed form of DNA called heterochromatin. In the comparatively simple organism fission yeast, a cellular phenomenon known as RNA ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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