A tightly packed ball of office staples can be surprisingly strong. Try to pull it apart and the tangled metal resists like a solid object. But with the right movement or vibration, that same bundle can quickly fall back into loose pieces. A team of engineers and materials scientists in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering at CU 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó are exploring how this uncanny combination of strength and flexibility could inspire a new class of materials built on interlocking particles.
Watch Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor Francois BarthelatÌýgive a seminar on how studying mollusk shells and teeth inspired his group to create a new type of toughened glass.
MCEN 4228/5228: Mechanics of Snow motivates students to look at natural materials in an analytical way. The idea behind the course is to teach students the science behind certain phenomena by looking at the fundamentals of snow and ice from the atomic level to the mechanics of the snowpack.
A tightly packed ball of office staples can be surprisingly strong. Try to pull it apart and the tangled metal resists like a solid object. But with the right movement or vibration, that same bundle can quickly fall back into loose pieces. A team of engineers and materials scientists in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering at CU 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó are exploring how this uncanny combination of strength and flexibility could inspire a new class of materials built on interlocking particles.
Watch Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor Francois BarthelatÌýgive a seminar on how studying mollusk shells and teeth inspired his group to create a new type of toughened glass.
MCEN 4228/5228: Mechanics of Snow motivates students to look at natural materials in an analytical way. The idea behind the course is to teach students the science behind certain phenomena by looking at the fundamentals of snow and ice from the atomic level to the mechanics of the snowpack.