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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Geometry and Stiffness: What's the Connection?

Last month we posted a blog article on compression testing various eggs and compared the findings of these eggs to each other. Although we were testing to see how much load an egg could uphold before cracking, I recently read an article were researchers at MIT, as well as a team of researchers at the University of Lyon in France, are using "experimental and theoretical methods to better understand how the geometry of nonspherical shells relates to their stiffness."

Read the article ...

Have you ever tested specimens to understand how their shape impacts their properties?

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