Why healthy cartilage is so resilient–and how disease and aging erode that resilience–is poorly understood on the molecular level. Now Christine Ortiz and Alan Grodzinsky at the Massachusetts ...

One of the major challenges in the study of vibrations is drawing free body diagrams (FBDs) that are valid for all subsequent motion of the system. Spring forces must be drawn in directions that ...

This video shows Mecmesin’s CFG+, a pocket-sized, lightweight entry level force gauge designed for elementary tension and compression measurements. The CFG+ provides a simple, digital to traditional ...

Why is pancake syrup an example of a resistive force? Some forces are called contact forces because they require objects to touch. One is tension force, found in stretched wires. Another is the force ...

We asked Smalley marketing engineer Justyna Rapacz to fill us in on the design of wave springs and their utility to engineers designing products. We turned to Smalley as the inventor of the edge wound ...

This video explains how the calibrated compression of a small, contained element (like a spring or a brittle material) ...