Buildings are designed to sway and deform without collapsing in response to earthquake shaking.
Earthquake-resistant concrete uses less reinforced steel
Understanding lithium ion batteries improves performance
Electron microscopy technique reveals the reaction pathways that emerge as lithium ions are added to magnetite nanoparticles
Materials Science Department Wins Alumni Cup
The Materials Science and Engineering Department won the Alumni Cup at the University of Maryland, College Park.
How to Drain an Entire Lake
This video from the History Channel shows how Lake Peigneur in Louisiana disappeared in 1980 when the location of a salt mine was miscalculated during exploratory oil drilling in the lake.
One Minute Mentor: Metallurgy of Ferritic Stainless Steels
Chromium stabilizes the ferritic structure at high temperatures, but some austenite can form at high temperature in steels with 12% chromium and a low or medium percentage of carbon, as shown in the graph.