Reporte #106
Conquering metal fatigue
MIT News – Engineering
Novel laminated nanostructure gives steel bone-like resistance to fracturing under repeated stress.
Scientists make microscopes from droplets
MIT News – Engineering
With chemistry and light, researchers can tune the focus of tiny beads of liquid.
Toward “valleytronic” devices for data storage or computer logic systems
MIT News – Engineering
Researchers have discovered a new way to tune electronic energy levels in some 2-D materials.
The next-generation water cooler
MIT News – Engineering
Smart flavored-beverage machines are persuading consumers nationwide to ditch their plastic bottles.
Swiss engineers develop edible robot
The Engineer
Researchers in Switzerland have developed an edible pneumatic actuator that they claim could pave the way for a new generation of metabolisable robots able to crawl around the inside of body, and deliver drugs directly to where they’re needed.
ETI project aims to reduce emissions from global shipping industry
The Engineer
Engineers are to develop a waste heat recovery system designed to deliver reduced emissions and fuel efficiency savings of at least eight per cent across all types of ship.
Siemens produces 3D printed component for nuclear power station
The Engineer
In a claimed first, engineers from Siemens have produced and installed a 3D-printed part in a nuclear power plant.
Avança construção do edifício mais alto de África
EngenhariaCivil.com
Já arrancaram, no centro de Nairobi, Quénia, os trabalhos de execução das fundações daquele que será o mais alto edifício do continente africano. A mais alta das Torres Hass terá 67 pisos e 300 metros de altura, batendo em quase 80 metros o atual recordista, o Centro Carlton em Joanesburgo, África do Sul, com 223 metros de altura. O desenvolvimento do projeto está a cargo do Grupo Meinhardt e da China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC), uma das maiores empresas de Engenharia Civil e construção do mundo.
Projeto e construção de estruturas de Engenharia Civil com materiais recuperados
EngenhariaCivil.com
Investigadores da Escola Politécnica Federal de Lausanne (EPFL) estão a estudar novas formas de utilizar materiais recuperados para a construção de estruturas, tendo em conta o previsivelmente importante papel destes materiais na Engenharia Civil do futuro.
With Synthetic Biology Software, Geneticists Design Living Organisms From Scratch
IEEE Spectrum Recent Content
The first time geneticist Jef Boeke designed a synthetic chromosome, he sometimes wrote and edited its DNA sequence in a Microsoft Word document.
ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit: Self-Fluffing Fabrics and the World’s Coolest Paint
IEEE Spectrum Recent Content
We check out prototypes from a government-funded future of efficient, affordable energy.