Lightweight materials for the next generation of railway vehicles
The transportation industry has for a long time been engaged in the application of new lightweight materials for primary structural design. In aeronautics, where […]
The first biological supercomputer
The model bio-supercomputer is powered by adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the substance that provides energy to all of the cells in a human […]
Novel honeycomb design for thermochemical energy storage
The RESTRUCTURE project, which officially ended in January 2016, performed the validation at a semi-pilot scale system of about 74 kWh capacity […]
A century after Einstein’s General Theory of Relatively, gravitational waves were discovered
The discovery is the culmination of decades of searching and 25 years of perfecting a set of instruments, called interferometers, so […]
Advanced bearings open door to more fuel efficient aircraft propellers
The positive results achieved through the EU-funded SNRPBBEARING project will now facilitate the development and testing of rapidly rotating turbofan […]
Smart and adaptive materials to set a new course for the shipbuilding industry
The ADAM4EVE project has identified more than 20 innovative results that will pave the way for the development of new, […]
Bio-aggregates sow the seeds for a revolution in building materials
Straw, clay, wheat, grasses or other organic materials, when mixed with innovative binders, can offer lower embodied energy and improved […]
Aluminum welding
Using the TIG (Tungsten Inert Gas) technique, in AC current, the welding takes place by means of an electric arc which strikes […]
Submarine cables
In electrical engineering and telecommunications submarine cable is a cable specially constructed and placed on the bottom of the sea, a lake or […]
The MIG welding
The shortarc technique is used for thin materials, for first pass welding of large thicknesses and in positional welding. Welds of this […]