🫦 Researchers pioneer pathway to mechanical intelligence by breaking symmetry in soft composite materials

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-pathway-mechanical-intelligence-symmetry-soft.html

#materials #symmetry #buckling #mechanical #technology

I got an IBM Model M keyboard

https://makertube.net/w/gHcxQUNnaVJSVuRqhxPmLe

Hey hive mind - I'm keen to start a PhD and move toward academia, and am thinking about potential research topics. I'm an experienced structural #engineer and want to transition toward #sustainability as much as I can. But I'm not sure what that means for viable #research areas...

I have particular expertise in mechanics of #materials, software development ( #Python and #JavaScript), and cold-formed steel / #buckling of thin-walled structures.

Anyone out there have any suggestions for specific topics or general directions?

#taz:
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Anbiederungen an Elon Musk
Der deutsche Kriecher

Die Unterwürfigkeit hiesiger Pseudoliberaler gegenüber Elon Musk scheint anlasslos und bizarr. Überlegungen zur Untertanenmentalität.
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https://taz.de/Anbiederungen-an-Elon-Musk/!6057145/

8.1.2025

#Anbiederung #AutoritärerLibertarismus #Bückling #DerUntertan #Deutschland #Imponiergehabe #Macht #Musk #SocialMedia #Twitter #Untertan #Würde #X

Some seabirds, including gannets and boobies, feed by plunge diving. From high in the air, they fold their wings and dive like darts into the water, impacting at speeds around 24 m/s to help them reach the depths where their prey swim. With their narrow beaks and necks, the critical moments in this feat come when the bird’s head is submerged but its body remains out of the water. At this point, the bird’s head is decelerating quickly and its body is still moving at full speed; if the neck cannot withstand this combination of forces, it will buckle.

But plunge divers, it turns out, have a secret weapon that helps them handle impact: their head shape. A study of water entry dynamics using 3D-printed models of birds’ heads found that plunge divers have a shape that increases the amount of time it takes to enter the water. The impact forces stretch out over that longer period of contact, which also stretches out the time it takes for the bird to reach its maximum deceleration. The end result? That extended contact time protects birds from unsafe levels of deceleration, just like a crumple-zone in a crashing car keeps its occupants from experiencing the worst decelerations. (Image credit: K. Zhou/BPOTY; research credit: S. Sharker et al.; via Colossal)

https://fyfluiddynamics.com/2024/10/immersion/

#biology #birds #buckling #diving #fluidDynamics #physics #plungeDiving #science #waterEntry

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