There's no escaping it: Though the tractor beam is a staple of sci-fi space-faring scenarios, it's also extremely counter-intuitive. How does one pull something in via an outward-shooting beam? A few ...

Scan the skyline of New York City and it’s almost everywhere you look. Same thing with Chicago and Philadelphia and just about any big city where the buildings poke into the sky. Everyone knows ...

The exhibition design “Beam” by Ryuji Nakamura does not need walls to create partition the space into separate rooms – only beams. The Tokyo-based architecture office Ryuji Nakamura & Associates has ...

Each year, students in CIE 429 learn about the theory associated with the analysis and design of beams, slabs and columns made of reinforced concrete. This semester, Stavridis and Seyedsina ...

Lego-like 3D-printed beams offer lightweight alternative to concrete By Nick Lavars March 09, 2021 According to research team behind them, the new 3D-printed beams weigh up to 80 percent less than ...

Understanding how helical, curved beams operate — how their spiral cuts accommodate angular and parallel misalignment, axial motion, and system vibrations — is the key to knowing how they will perform ...

First, the payload requirements and problems faced by traditional multi-beam antenna are described. The user beam of the VHTS payload system mainly uses Ka-band multi-beam antenna for a large range of ...

The quest for electrification in the automobile industry has resulted in an extraordinary explosion of unusual cars. Newer, slim designs that wrap around a car’s front, back, or sides are taking the ...