HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - NASA engineers improvised in Huntsville on Wednesday when their carefully planned - and televised - "can crush" experiment didn't crush a rocket shell as expected. But improvise ...

Buckling in shell structures, encompassing both spherical and cylindrical forms, remains a central focus in structural mechanics due to its implications in civil engineering, aerospace, soft robotics ...

Remember those toys that sprang up into the air after you pushed them down? They're called poppers, and they've inspired an actuator that could one day allow soft-bodied robots to jump across rough ...

The study of buckling behavior and strength analysis in pressure vessels and shell structures is fundamental to ensuring the safety and operational reliability of critical engineering systems.

NASA completed a series of high-tech can-crushing tests last week as an enormous fuel tank crumbled under the pressure of almost a million pounds of force, all in the name of building lighter, more ...