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Maker Profile – Fire Sculpture on MAKE: television
These women are fired up: The Flaming Lotus Girls, a women-centric maker collaborative, creates gargantuan, fierce, flame-breathing sculptures. This popular Bay Area organization boasts diverse membership, welcoming members from all backgrounds. Whether theyre artists, lawyers, mothers or scientists, all Flaming Lotus Girls share two things in common: a desire to get their hands dirty, and…
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Researcher seeks to make stronger materials with composites
We extract iron ore from the ground, treat it, convert it to steel and then use it in many applications that demand its strength, rigidity and durability. But as with all engineers, Allison Beese, assistant professor or Materials Science and Engineering wants to make a better materials with the use of composites.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngupmcXm0uY
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Tensile Test Experiment
One material property that is widely used and recognized is the strength of a material. But what does the word “strength” mean? “Strength” can have many meanings, so let us take a closer look at what is meant by the strength of a material. In this lesson we will look at a very easy experiment…
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Structural Integrity Sensors
Check out this NASA video on scientists developing sensors from carbon nanotubes to monitor the structural integrity of new, inflatable space structures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTN0r4eIMNo
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The Strength of Steel: Why Shipping Containers Hold up in Structures
This article by Falcon Structures discusses the science of the strength of steel. https://www.falconstructures.com/blog/the-strength-of-steel-why-shipping-containers-hold-up-in-structures
