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Jan 16, 2024

Getting Started With Aluminum Extrusions

T-slot extrusions used to be somewhat mysterious, but today they are quite common thanks to their use in many 3D printer

Jan 10, 2024

Past GDIS Presentations

Electric vehicles came to market demonstrating new technologies and new challenges for OEMs and their suppliers. A signi

Jan 04, 2024

Using Video Games to Teach Materials Science

A new review paper from Northwestern Engineering’s Horacio Espinosa shows that ML, which learns from data to make predic

Dec 29, 2023

Florida Alligator Bends Fence Bars & Sneaks Right Through

If we needed proof that alligators were the only creatures to survive the meteor that took out all the dinosaurs, look n

Dec 23, 2023

MXA TECH SPEC: WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOUR HANDLEBARS

Stiffness increases to the third power; strength to the second power of the percentage of diameter increase. What concer

Dec 17, 2023

Imagine 2200: Replay Boomer

I magine 2200 , Grist’s climate fiction initiative, publishes stories that envision the next 180 years of equitable clim

Dec 11, 2023

Best Prime Day Deals on Home and Kitchen Products

Check out the best discounts on high-quality items that hold up to everyday use When you shop through retailer links on

Dec 04, 2023

On the yield criterion of porous materials by the homogenization approach and Steigmann

Scientific Reports volume 13, Article number: 10951 (2023) Cite this article 118 Accesses 1 Altmetric Metrics details In

Nov 28, 2023

Improving the efficiency of 4A

Scientific Reports volume 13, Article number: 12533 (2023) Cite this article Metrics details This study focuses on optim

Nov 22, 2023

The Flower of Forest Park: Innovation in Architecture

Author’s note: This article contains architectural terminology. For clarity, a brief glossary of terms can be found at t

Nov 16, 2023

How to Fix a Bent Derailleur Hanger

Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley A few of you asked me to cover repairing bent derailleur hangers so that’s the topic for

Nov 10, 2023

How to heat aluminum to avoid cracking after bending

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